Professor 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...
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MIT has identified the police officer killed in the line of duty on Thursday evening as Patrol Officer Sean A. Collier, 27, 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,...
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...
View ArticleKenneth Stevens, professor emeritus in EECS, dies at 89
Kenneth Stevens, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, whose pioneering work at the intersection of engineering and linguistics helped earn him...
View ArticlePeter Reich, former chief of psychiatry at MIT Medical, dies at 82
Peter Reich, MIT Medical’s chief of psychiatry from 1989 to 2002, passed away in New York’s Adirondack Mountains on Aug. 11 after a battle with leukemia. He was 82.Reich graduated from Harvard Medical...
View ArticleRobert E. Ogilvie, DMSE professor emeritus, dies at 89
Robert E. Ogilvie, professor emeritus of metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, passed away after brief illness on Sept. 3. He was 89.Ogilvie’s academic foundation in...
View ArticleAnn Wolpert, director of libraries, has died at 70
Ann Wolpert, MIT’s director of libraries since 1996, has died after a brief illness. She was 70 years old.Wolpert was a pioneer in digital stewardship, bringing to the MIT community a deep...
View ArticleSemiconductor research pioneer Peter Wolff dies at 89
Peter A. Wolff, professor emeritus of physics, a semiconductor research pioneer, visionary science administrator and an indispensable guide for MIT physicists seeking careers in industry, died on Sept....
View ArticleLincoln Palmer Bloomfield, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 93
Professor emeritus of political science Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield died Oct. 30 of respiratory failure. He was 93. Bloomfield was a public servant, educator, and author. He was noted for his work on...
View ArticleStephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away...
View ArticleTheodore Madden, EAPS professor emeritus, dies at 88
Theodore Madden, or “Ted,” an MIT alumnus and professor emeritus in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) whose contributions to research and teaching influenced a...
View ArticleBiologist Boris Magasanik dies at 94
Boris Magasanik, the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, passed away on Dec. 25 at his home in Cambridge. He was 94. Magasanik was recruited by Salvador Luria to join MIT’s Department of...
View ArticleElizabeth Johnson, widow of former MIT president Howard Johnson, dies at 92
Elizabeth “Betty” Weed Johnson, the widow of former MIT president Howard W. Johnson, died Sunday, Jan. 5. She was 92. The Johnsons joined the MIT community in 1955, when Howard Johnson took a job on...
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