Tag: Obituary

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    Copyright scholar Kaplan dies

    Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.

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    Daniel Tosteson

    Daniel Charles Tosteson, former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, died on May 27, 2009, at the age of 84 after a long and courageous struggle with Parkinson’s disease. His 20-year leadership of the Harvard Medical Faculty was marked by innovation, change, and renewal. His…

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    Paul C. Zamecnik

    Paul Charles Zamecnik, the Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, died in Boston on Oct. 27, 2009, at the age of 96. During a research career that spanned more than 70 years, he made a series of scientific contributions that represented multiple fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

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    Andrew Mattei Gleason

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2010, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Andrew Mattei Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Gleason’s best-known work is his resolution of Hilbert’s Fifth Problem.

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    Memorial service for Leon Kirchner

    A memorial gathering in remembrance of Leon Kirchner, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held on Apr. 8 (7:30-9:30 p.m.) at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.

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    Finance expert Gordon Donaldson dies at 87

    Gordon Donaldson, an influential Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993, died on Feb. 12 in Parkland, Fla., at the age of 87.

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    Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 10, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ingalls had an enormous influence on the development of Sanskrit studies in North America.

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    ‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal, 72

    Erich Segal, the author of the Harvard-based novel “Love Story” and who once taught classics at the University, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17. He was 72.

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    Ihor Ševčenko

    Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.

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    Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82

    Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.

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    Alastair Graham Walter Cameron

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Alastair Cameron’s theory is now the accepted one for the origin of the Moon.

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    Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82

    Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.

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    Memorial service to honor Connors

    A memorial service will be held at the Memorial Church in remembrance of Harvard in-house attorney Frank J. Connors Jr.

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    Robert David Utiger

    Robert D. “Bob” Utiger, M.D., a beloved physician, researcher, mentor, educator, and editor died on June 29, 2008 at his home in Weston, Massachusetts. He was the epitome of the Academic Physician, a scholar, physician, teacher, and friend and a role model for each of us to emulate.

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    Julius Benjamin Richmond

    Julius Benjamin Richmond, M.D., Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine was born in Chicago, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, on 26 September, 1916. He died at his home in Brookline, MA on 27 July, 2008. Few individuals have had as great an impact on health, health care, and the well-being…

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    Darrel B. Hoff dies at 76

    Darrel B. Hoff, 76, who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for six years, died on Nov. 2 at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa.

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    Donald Harnish Fleming

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald Harnish Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald Fleming was a scholar of intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.

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    Paul Goldhaber

    Dean emeritus Paul Goldhaber, dean at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) for 22 years, died July 14, 2008, at the age of 84. With a passion for research and an insatiable curiosity, he worked tirelessly with the hope that his lab work would encourage others to do the same.

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    Theodore Sizer dies at 77

    Onetime Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Theodore Sizer, who spent half a century as a teacher, education reformer, leader, author, and mentor, died Oct. 21 at his Harvard, Mass., home. He was 77.

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    Mary Lee Ingbar, pioneer in field of health economics, dies at 83

    Mary Lee Ingbar, Radcliffe ’46, Ph.D. ’53, M.P.H. ’56, who was a pioneer in applying quantitative and sophisticated computer analysis to the developing field of health economics in the 1950s and 1960s, died in Cambridge, on Sept. 18.

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    Economist Duesenberry dies at 91

    James Stemble Duesenberry, an eminent economist who was an authority on monetary policy and a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Economics for more than half a century, recently passed away at his home in Cambridge at the age of 91.

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    Memorial service to be held for Hastings

    A memorial service for Hanna Machlup Hastings will be held on Oct. 17 at Pforzheimer House.

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    Charles McCabe

    Charles McCabe, senior surgeon and senior physician in emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died July 7, 2008, after a protracted battle with melanoma, lymphoma, and multiple sclerosis.

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    Liem, professor of ichthyology, dies at 74

    Karel Frederik Liem, an expert on the functional anatomy, evolution, and physiology of fishes and curator of ichthyology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died on Sept. 3 at the age of 74.

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    Ernest Edward Williams

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernest Edward Williams, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ernest Williams’ work on anole evolution synthesized a wide variety of fields.

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    Leon Eisenberg, pioneering child psychiatrist, dies at 87

    Leon Eisenberg, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died on Sept. 15 at the age of 87.

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    SEAS, FAS professor Allan R. Robinson dies at 76

    Allan R. Robinson, Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Emeritus died on Sept. 25, at the age of 76.

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    Maher memorial service Sept. 25

    A memorial service for Brendan A. Maher, the Emeritus Edward C Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality in the Department of Psychology, will be held on Sept. 25.

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    Leon Kirchner; Harvard teacher wrote bold, daring music, won Pulitzer; at 90

    Leon Kirchner came to Harvard in 1961, after teaching at Mills College, and eventually assumed an endowed chair previously held by the composer Walter Piston.

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    Robert Timmons McCluskey

    Robert T. McCluskey, a pioneer in the field of immunopathology, died June 29, 2006 at the age of 83. McCluskey was a leader in academic pathology and nephrology and his major scientific contributions were related to the immunopathogenesis of renal diseases.

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