Yaron Segal dies while in custody in Colorado
Yaron Segal, a postdoc in MIT’s Photovoltaics Research Laboratory, died on Friday, April 13, while in federal custody, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. On March 28, Segal was arrested by...
View ArticleWilliam F. Brace, professor emeritus in EAPS, dies at 86
William F. Brace ‘46, ‘49, PhD ’53, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, died Wednesday, May 2, of complications following heart surgery. He was 86. Brace...
View ArticleGeorge Koster, physics professor emeritus, dies at 85
George Fred Koster, a condensed matter physicist who contributed to advances in research on semi-conductor materials and a devoted MIT educator who challenged students to demand excellence of...
View ArticleGeorge Gardner, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 94
George Peabody Gardner, a member of the MIT Corporation since 1959, died on Wednesday, May 9. He was 94.Gardner was born in 1917 in Newton, Mass., and worked for many years in the advertising...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Elias P. Gyftopoulos dies at 84
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Ford Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, died peacefully at his home in Lincoln, Mass., on Saturday, June 23. He was 84 years old. Considered by...
View ArticleAngus MacDonald, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 86
Angus Nathaniel MacDonald ’46, SM ’47, who served on the MIT Corporation for most of the last four decades, died at his home in Greenwich, Conn., on Sunday, July 8. He was 86.The cause of death was...
View ArticleMelvin H. Rodman, former medical director at MIT Medical, dies at 90
Melvin H. Rodman, M.D., former medical director at MIT Medical and professor of medicine at MIT, passed away on Aug. 12. He was 90.Rodman was a Massachusetts native who grew up in Malden where his...
View ArticleRobert C. O'Handley, former research scientist, dies at 70
Robert C. O'Handley, a former research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), died on Saturday, March 9. He was 70.In 1981, O'Handley came to MIT as a research...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Frederick J. McGarry dies at 86
Frederick J. McGarry, professor emeritus of polymer engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) died March...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Harold Wachman dies at 85
Retired Aeronautics and Astronautics Department Professor Harold Y. Wachman of Lexington, Mass., passed away on March 25. He was 85.Wachman taught thermodynamics to generations of Course 16 Unified...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Harold Wachman dies at 85
Retired Aeronautics and Astronautics Department Professor Harold Y. Wachman of Lexington, Mass., passed away on March 25. He was 85.Wachman taught thermodynamics to generations of Course 16 Unified...
View Article‘He loved us, and we loved him’
MIT has identified the police officer killed in the line of duty on Thursday evening as Patrol Officer Sean A. Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass.Collier had served as a member of the MIT Police since...
View ArticleEmily Wick PhD '51, MIT's first female professor to earn tenure, dies at 91
Emily Wick, the first female faculty member to earn tenure at MIT, died peacefully in her home in Rockport, Mass., on March 21, 2013. She was 91.Wick was born on Dec. 9, 1921, in Youngstown, Ohio. She...
View ArticleMechanical engineering professor Joseph LeConte Smith Jr. dies at 83
Joseph LeConte Smith Jr., the Samuel C. Collins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, died on May 7 at the age of 83.After completing his undergraduate education in mechanical engineering at...
View ArticleMIT visiting scientist Kanako Miura, 36, dies while bicycling in Boston
On Sunday, May 19, MIT visiting scientist Dr. Kanako Miura, 36, died after being struck by a motor vehicle while riding her bicycle in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Miura, an expert in humanoid...
View ArticleLongtime biology professor Annamaria Torriani-Gorini dies at 94
Annamaria Torriani-Gorini, professor emerita of biology at MIT, died May 2 at her home in Brookline, Mass. She was 94.“Her life journey took her across continents and cultures,” her son, Daniel Gorini,...
View ArticlePatrick A. Kearney, DMSE instructor, dies at 81
Patrick A. Kearney, who joined MIT in 1960 and held a number of staff positions before becoming a technical instructor in the Course III undergraduate core, died on June 9. He was 81.Kearney first...
View ArticleSvetlana Adamova Sussman, MIT Sloan administrative officer, dies at 53
Svetlana Adamova Sussman, administrative officer for the Economics, Finance & Accounting (EF&A) program at the MIT Sloan School of Management, passed away on June 7 at her home in Somerville....
View ArticleRobert Meservey, pioneering MIT physicist, dies at 92
Robert Hilton Meservey, a longtime MIT research physicist, accomplished skier and Army veteran, died from a stroke on June 18 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 92. After receiving his PhD from Yale University...
View ArticlePath-breaking historian Pauline Maier dies at age 75
The eminent historian Pauline Maier, whose award-winning books cast new light on Revolutionary-era America and the foundations of U.S. democracy, died Aug. 12 in Cambridge, Mass., after a battle with...
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