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Tag: Memorial Minute
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Campus & Community
Stanley Lieberson, 84
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Lieberson, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Lieberson made wide-ranging contributions to the study of race and ethnicity, cultural and linguistic change, and…
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Richard Wilson, 92
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Wilson, whose research focused on nuclear and elementary particle physics, educated governmental bodies and the public on a…
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Nicolau Sevcenko, 61
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolau Sevcenko, professor of romance languages and literatures, was placed upon the records. Professor Sevcenko was one of Brazil’s foremost urban and cultural historians.
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James Allan Davis, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Allan Davis, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Davis devoted himself to building empirical foundations for social science, especially in survey and public opinion research.
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Patrick Thaddeus, 84
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Patrick Thaddeus, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thaddeus was a founder of and long-time leader in the field of astrochemistry
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Per Nykrog, 88
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 2, 2019, a tribute to the life and service of the late Per Nykrog was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Pramod Chandra, 85
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, 1980-2003, was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Stephen Jay Gould, 60
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 5, 2019, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Stephen Jay Gould was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, 87
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 5, 2019, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Francisco Márquez Villanueva, 82
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 5, 2019, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Francisco Márquez Villanueva was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Richard Pipes, 94
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 4, 2018, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Richard Edgar Pipes was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Warner Berthoff, 93
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 4, 2018, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Warner Bement Berthoff was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Nicolaas Bloembergen, 97
Nicolaas Bloembergen was universally acknowledged for his seminal contributions to the fundamental physics requisite to magnetic resonance imaging.
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Campus & Community
Joseph John Harrington, 69
Professor Harrington helped improve the quality of life in communities with problems with clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Campus & Community
Don Craig Wiley, 57
Professor Wiley was one of the most influential molecular-structural biologists of the late 20th century.
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Campus & Community
Eugene Rochow, 92
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Eugene George Rochow, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rochow took on challenging realms of organometallic chemistry and ceramics, nuclear chemistry, and education.
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Campus & Community
Leonard Nash, 95
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Leonard Kollender Nash, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Nash conducted research in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and was a famously inspiring teacher.
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Campus & Community
William Klemperer, 90
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William Aloys Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Klemperer was among the world’s leaders in molecular spectroscopy.
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Campus & Community
Jurij Striedter, 80
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jurij Striedter, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, was placed upon the records. Professor Striedter was a leading scholar of Russian literature.
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Campus & Community
I. Bernard Cohen, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohen led the professionalization of the history of science and established the flagship department at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Albert M. Henrichs, 74
Professor Henrichs was an accomplished papyrologist and produced seminal studies across the breadth of Greek literature and religion.
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James Ackerman, 97
Professor Ackerman was the most widely read architectural historian in America for decades.
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Campus & Community
Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72
Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.
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Philip Alden Kuhn, 82
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Kuhn, through artful, deeply researched storytelling, reshaped approaches to…
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Campus & Community
J. Richard Hackman, 73
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, was placed upon the records. Professor Hackman sought to understand the elemental ability of living beings to operate as collectives…
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Campus & Community
Abdelhamid Sabra, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra, Professor of the History of Arabic Science emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Sabra was best known for his extensive investigations into medieval and early modern optics…
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Campus & Community
Evon Vogt, 85
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Evon Zartman Vogt Jr., Professor of Social Anthropology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Vogt was a prolific social anthropologist who began the 35-year Harvard Chiapas Project.
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Campus & Community
Lee Rainwater, 87
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Lee Rainwater, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rainwater engaged in scholarship concerned with the nature and consequences of poverty and economic inequality and co-founded the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the…
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Campus & Community
Samuel Huntington, 81
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Samuel Huntington was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Adam Marian Dziewoński, 79
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Adam Marian Dziewoński was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.