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Leon Kirchner
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March 22, 2012
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Handlin was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of the twentieth century.
Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Allan R. Robinson, Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Robinson’s insights into the Gulf Stream, the evolution of ocean eddies, and the dynamics of circulation in the Mediterranean Sea earned him renown in the world of oceanography.
Barbara Lindsay Norton, 20-year staffer, dies
Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.
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A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
April 20 memorial to honor Jewett
A memorial service celebrating the life of L. Fred Jewett ’57, M.B.A. ’60, former dean of Harvard College and a longtime University administrator, will be held in the Memorial Church on April 20.
Memorial set for James Q. Wilson
A memorial service for James Q. Wilson, former Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, will be held on April 13.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ronold W. P. King, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor King, a dedicated teacher and scholar, was an expert on linear antennas.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Michael Tinkham, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Tinkham was internationally known for his contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular superconductivity.
May 14 memorial for David Wheeler
A memorial service has been set for longtime A.R.T. resident director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 4.
Land-use law pioneer, Charles M. Haar, 91
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus Charles M. Haar ’48, a pioneer in land-use law whose scholarship focused on laws and institutions of city planning, urban development, and environmental issues, died on Jan. 10.
March memorial for Norman Ramsey
The Department of Physics will host a memorial ceremony for Nobel laureate and former physics professor Norman Ramsey.
Music scholar, John Milton Ward, 94
John Milton Ward, Harvard’s William Powell Mason Professor of Music from 1961 to 1985, died quietly at home in Cambridge on Dec. 12. He was 94 years old.
Former A.R.T. resident director dies
David Wheeler, longtime resident director and later associate artist of the American Repertory Theater, died Jan. 4.
Memorial service for Bernie Wolfman
Harvard Law School will host a memorial Service in honor of Bernie Wolfman on Feb. 3.
Paul Doty, 91, founder of Belfer Center
Paul Doty, the founder of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died Dec. 5 at the age of 91.
Abraham Zaleznik, HBS professor, 87
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, a renowned authority on leadership and social psychology, died in Boston on Nov. 28 at the age of 87.
Former College Dean Jewett dies at 75
L. Fred Jewett '57, former dean of Harvard College and a longtime University administrator, died on Nov. 27. He was 75.
Charles M. Williams dies at 94
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of M.B.A. students and executives around the world, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 17. He was 94.
Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96
Norman Ramsey, Harvard physics professor since 1947 and Nobel laureate in 1989, died at age 96 on Nov. 4, 2011.
A memorial service for composer and conductor James Yannatos will be held on Dec. 10 in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
The news of Ihor Ševčenko’s death, on the day after Christmas 2009, elicited a spontaneous international reaction that befitted his stature as a towering intellect and hugely admired scholar in the fields of Byzantine and pre-modern Slavic studies.
Paul R. Lawrence, a renowned sociologist and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of Harvard Business School (HBS), died Nov. 1 in Bedford, Mass. He was 89. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Story Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
Composer and conductor James Yannatos, who as leader of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for more than 45 years worked with thousands of young musicians, died at his home in Cambridge on Oct. 19 from complications of cancer. He was 82.
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