Recently Deceased Research News and Press Releases

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Parkinson's Expert on the Death of Janet Reno

Released: 28-Oct-2016 11:05 AM EDT

Susan Lindquist, Accomplished and Beloved Scientist, Has Died at Age 67

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

“Sue has meant so much to Whitehead as an institution of science, and as a community of scientists, and her passing leaves us diminished in so many ways,” reflects David C. Page, M.D., Director of Whitehead Institute

Announcement SCIENCE

Released: 13-Oct-2016 1:05 PM EDT

Thai King Offered ‘Pretext for Unity,’ Now Country Faces Uncertain Future

Cornell University

Expert Pitch LIFE

22-Sep-2016 9:00 AM EDT

Ed Lofgren, Pioneering ‘Rad Lab,’ Berkeley Lab, and Manhattan Project Physicist, Dies at 102

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Edward Joseph Lofgren, a pioneering Berkeley Lab physicist who was a close associate of E.O. Lawrence and worked on the Manhattan Project, died Sept. 6 at age 102.

Feature SCIENCE

Released: 21-Sep-2016 3:05 PM EDT

Mayo Clinic Remembers William Eugene Mayberry, M.D., Former Mayo Clinic CEO

Mayo Clinic

William Eugene Mayberry, M.D., a distinguished Mayo Clinic physician, research scientist and administrator, passed away on Sept. 18 in Rochester, Minnesota. He was 87.

Feature MEDICINE

Released: 31-Aug-2016 3:05 PM EDT

Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien Dies, Age 64

UC San Diego Health

Roger Tsien, PhD, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry and professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at University of California San Diego School of Medicine for 27 years, died August 24 in Eugene, Ore. He was 64.

Announcement MEDICINE

Released: 23-Aug-2016 8:05 AM EDT

In Memoriam: Donald Ainslie Henderson, 1928–2016

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Donald Ainslie Henderson, MD, MPH ’60, a leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox – considered one of public health’s greatest successes – and a former dean of what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, died Friday. He was 87.

Announcement MEDICINE

Released: 26-Jul-2016 4:15 PM EDT

Local Philanthropist and UC San Diego Supporter Conrad Prebys Dies

University of California San Diego

University of California San Diego friend and supporter, Conrad Prebys died on Sunday, July 24, following a battle with cancer. The San Diego philanthropist and businessman was 82.

Announcement LIFE

Released: 21-Jul-2016 2:05 PM EDT

Clarkson University Mourns Death of Renowned Chemist Egon Matijevic

Clarkson University

Clarkson University's Egon Matijevic passed away early on July 20 at the age of 94. Matijevic was considered a brilliant scholar whose prolific and inspired research helped shape the modern field of colloid and surface science, and established Clarkson as preeminent in the field.