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| Dec.15 |
San Francisco |
Diane Middlebrook, biographer, dies| A leading feminist scholar wrote critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. She was 68 | |
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| Oct.26 |
Stanford |
Nobel Laureate Kornberg dies at 89| Scientist Dr. Arthur Kornberg, whose test-tube synthesis of DNA earned him Nobel prize in 1959, died of respiratory failure | |
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| Jul.8 |
UC Berkeley |
Lyman, information research pioneer, dies Peter Lyman, a University of California, professor whose research measured the staggering amounts of information was 66
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| Jun.10 |
Stanford |
Philosopher Richard Rorty Dies At 75| Stanford University comparative literature professor was 75. His book 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' rankled some of his peers | | |
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| Apr.4 |
Palo Alto |
Watzlawick, family therapy pioneer, dies A pioneering Stanford family therapist and communications theorist was 85
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| Dec.16 |
UC Berkeley |
Biologist Cadet Hammond Hand dies| One of the world's top experts on invertebrate zoology taught at the University for more than 50 years | |
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| Mar.1 |
UC Berkeley |
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Dies Owen Chamberlain shared the Nobel Prize in physics as co-discoverer of the antiproton; died at age 85
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| Feb.12 |
Stanford |
Heart transplant pioneer Shumway dies Norman E. Shumway performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States
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| May.18 |
UC Berkeley |
Professor Zelnik dies in accident History professor Reginald Zelnik, 68, who defended Free Speech Movement protesters died in a campus traffic accident
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| Sep.9 |
Stanford |
Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, dies| Teller played a key role in U.S. defense and energy policies for more than half a century. He was 95 | | |
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State takes over Oakland schools
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| Oct.30 |
UC Berkeley |
Former chancellor dead at 67 Chang-Lin Tien became the first Asian-American to head a major U.S. university in his 7 years as chancellor
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| Apr.5 |
San Jose |
Communications satellite pioneer dead John Robinson Pierce pioneered satellite communications and coined the word 'transistor'. He was 92
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| Feb.20 |
UC Berkeley |
Vice chancellor dies at 45 Matthew M. Lyon was head spokesman for the University and once a Democratic speechwriter. He was 45.
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| Feb.17 |
Oakland |
Anthropologist, fossil hunter dies J. Desmond Clark, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, was 85
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| Nov.27 |
Los Altos Hills |
W. Glenn Campbell dead at 77 Campbell led Stanford University's Hoover Institution for nearly 30 years
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| Sep.5 |
UC Berkeley |
Former Berkeley provost dies Doris Calloway, a famous nutritional scientist, has died of Parkinson's disease
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| Aug.23 |
UC Berkeley |
Expert on early childhood dies Millie Almy, a professor emerita, has died at the age of 86. She wrote 80 scholarly books and articles
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| Aug.2 |
Orinda |
Sci-fi author Poul Anderson dies Former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He was 74
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| May.6 |
Stanford |
Stanford professor dead A. Walker, a physics professor whose work helped investigate mysteries of the sun, died at 64
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| Apr.24 |
UC Berkeley |
Professor died Egor Popov, emeritus professor of civil engineering, wrote widely used engineering textbooks
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| Mar.20 |
San Francisco |
Writer and historian dies Charles P. Corn, 63, man of letters, died in his home of a stroke
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| Jan.31 |
Stanford |
Former assist. professor dies at 101 Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor taught Russian. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine
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| Jan.27 |
Moraga |
College Mourns Coach
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| Jan.17 |
Palo Alto |
Retired nuclear physicist dies D. Lawrence developed a patented cancer treatment
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UC Berkeley |
Aeronautical engineer dies
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| Jan.5 |
UC Berkeley |
Nat. Medal of Science Winner dies
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| Dec.1 |
San Francisco |
Neuropathology pioneer dead
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| Nov.10 |
Mountain View |
Computer pioneer died
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B. Gates gives $15M to Oakland schools
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UC Berkeley |
Isotopic researcher dies
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| Nov.6 |
Mill Valley |
Advocate for organ donation died
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| Sep.23 |
UC Berkeley |
Art Museum director dies
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| Aug.26 |
Walnut Creek |
Psychoanalyst died
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| Jul.13 |
Berkeley |
Child psychology pioneer died
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