Marcus Karel, food science pioneer and professor emeritus of chemical...
Marcus “Marc” G. Karel PhD ’60, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died on July 25 at age 91. A member of the MIT community since 1951, Karel inspired a generation of food scientists and...
View ArticleJohn Ball, longtime Haystack Observatory scientist, dies at 83
Former MIT Haystack Observatory scientist John Allen Ball died Aug. 6 at age 83, of complications resulting from Alzheimer’s disease.Ball was born in 1935 at his family’s home in Ravenna, Nebraska. He...
View ArticleDavid H. Koch, prominent supporter of cancer research at MIT, dies at 79
David H. Koch ’62, SM ’63, one of the most important benefactors in MIT’s modern history, has died. He was 79 years old.Koch’s willingness to back significant initiatives at the Institute was...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, innovator in design and engineering...
Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, the Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, passed away on Oct. 11 at the age of 75. Flowers’ passion for design and his infectious kindness...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Ali Argon, pioneer in the mechanics of materials, dies at 89
Ali S. Argon SM '53, ScD '56, the Quentin Berg Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, passed away on Dec. 21, 2019, at the age of 89. A world-leading expert in the mechanics of materials,...
View ArticleJeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies...
Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and biological warfare expert, died on Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 76.Guillemin received her bachelor’s degree in social...
View ArticleMaurice Fox, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 95
Maurice Sanford Fox, professor emeritus of biology and former head of the Department of Biology, passed away on Jan. 26 at the age of 95.Fox was instrumental in creating and revising several courses...
View ArticleAron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88
Aron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics and longtime anti-nuclear proliferation activist, died on Jan. 14 after a short battle with cancer. He was 88.Aron Bernstein joined MIT in 1961, and taught...
View ArticleFrank Press, MIT geophysicist and U.S. science adviser, dies at 95
Frank Press, a noted geophysicist and science adviser to four U.S. presidents, died Jan. 29 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 95.Press, an MIT Corporation life member emeritus, was the chair of...
View ArticleRichard Dudley, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 81
Richard Mansfield Dudley, MIT professor emeritus of mathematics, died on Jan. 19 following a long illness. He was 81. Dudley served on the MIT mathematics faculty from 1967 until 2015, when he...
View ArticleThomas Dupree, professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and...
Thomas H. Dupree, a professor emeritus in both the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics, passed away on Feb. 11 at the age of 86.Focusing on theoretical plasma...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Ulrich Becker, who made major contributions to particle...
Ulrich J. Becker, a professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, passed away on March 10 at age 81, after a long struggle with cancer.Becker became emeritus in 2011 after 42 years with MIT, but he...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Arnold Demain, a pioneer in the development of...
Arnold Lester Demain, professor emeritus of biology, passed away on Apr. 3 at the age of 92 from complications due to Covid-19. He was just shy of celebrating his 93rd birthday.Demain advanced the...
View ArticleRemembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science,...
Kenneth Keniston, a founder and pillar of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and later of the MIT-India Program, passed away on Feb. 14 after a long illness. He was 90 years...
View ArticleRamachandra Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Lab,...
Ramachandra Rao Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, which houses the MIT-Laser Biomedical Research Center, passed away peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by...
View ArticleDaniel Kemp, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 83
Daniel S. Kemp, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, died peacefully and comfortably from respiratory complications due to Covid-19, after a battle with dementia, on Saturday, May 2. He...
View ArticleYukio Okamoto, Japanese diplomat and MIT research fellow, dies at 74
Yukio Okamoto, a Japanese diplomat and fellow at MIT, died from Covid-19 on April 24 at the age of 74. The former special advisor to two prime ministers of Japan joined the Center for International...
View ArticlePaul Thomas, MIT’s “Mr. Magnet,” dies at 77
Paul Thomas, best known as MIT’s “Mr. Magnet,” passed away peacefully on May 4 at the age of 77, after a five-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.By the time he retired from MIT in 2014, the technical...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83
MIT electrical engineering and computer science Professor Emeritus Michael Athans died peacefully on May 26 at his home in Clearwater, Florida, at the age of 83. Athans was born in Drama, Macedonia,...
View ArticleDietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 91
Dietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and pioneer in the field of organometallic chemistry, died of complications from Covid-19 on Saturday, June 6. He was 91.“Dietmar’s...
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