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Donald Glaser, a Nobel-prize winning physicist who reinvented himself as a biotech pioneer and later dove into the field of neurobiology, died in his sleep Thursday morning, Feb. 28, at his home in Berkeley. Glaser, a professor emeritus of physics and of molecular and cell biology, was 86.
Obituaries archive
Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61
March 25, 2013: Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of computer science and one of the campus’s first faculty members in the field of artificial intelligence, has died at age 61.
John Forte, researcher on acid-secreting stomach cells, has died at 77
January 11, 2013: John G. Forte, a UC Berkeley physiologist whose work on acid-secreting cells in the stomach pointed the way to treatments for ulcers, died peacefully at his home in Berkeley on Nov. 19, 2012, following a prolonged battle with leukemia. He was 77.
In memoriam: Berkeley grad student Stephan Jarjisian
December 19, 2012: The 32-year-old psychology student was finishing his doctoral dissertation at the time of last week’s fatal motorcycle crash.
Robert Lin, UC Berkeley pioneer in experimental space physics, dies at 70
November 21, 2012: Physicist Robert Peichung Lin, a former director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, who designed and built dozens of instruments to study solar flares, the magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and Mars and the plasma environment of Earth, died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Nuclear physicist Stuart Freedman has died at 68
November 16, 2012: Stuart Jay Freedman, a UC Berkeley professor of physics, nuclear physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a world-renowned investigator of fundamental physical laws, died suddenly on Nov. 9 while attending a scientific conference in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 68.
Harold Johnston, atmospheric chemist who warned of ozone depletion, has died
November 2, 2012: Harold “Hal” Johnston, professor emeritus of chemistry who in the 1970s was thrust into the limelight after publishing research suggesting that aircraft emissions could deplete atmospheric ozone, died peacefully at his home in Kensington on Oct. 20. He was 92. He was a recpient of the National Medal of Science and several awards for service to society.
Longtime ITS library director Dan Krummes dies
October 22, 2012: Dan Krummes, longtime director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies library and a Distinguished University Librarian, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 18, at the age of 62.
In memory: Longtime plant physiologist James Vlamis
October 5, 2012: James Vlamis, a UC Berkeley graduate who served as a physiologist in the Department of Plant and Soil Biology and at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Berkeley for some 60 years, is remembered. He died at the of age 97.
Memorial service Oct. 16 for J. Christopher Stevens
October 4, 2012: A memorial service for J. Christopher Stevens, the late U.S. ambassador to Libya and a UC Berkeley alumnus, will be held in the rotunda of the San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m.
Distinguished historian Henry May dies at 97
October 1, 2012: Margaret Bryne Professor of American History Emeritus helped define scholarly discussion of American history during the Enlightenment and in the post-World-War-I era
Campus honors late ambassador Stevens with moment of silence, memorial fund
September 28, 2012: A fund has been set up in memory of J. Christopher Stevens, the late U.S. ambassador to Libya and a UC Berkeley alumnus, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Campuswide memorial: Solemn and artful ‘goodbye’ to those lost in past year
September 27, 2012: The greater campus community gathered Thursday at a campuswide memorial, to honor students, faculty, emeriti and staff who passed away in the past year.
UC Berkeley mourns the loss of ambassador and alumnus J. Christopher Stevens
September 12, 2012: In response to the assassination in Libya of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, a UC Berkeley graduate, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued a statement of sorrow and condolence on Wednesday morning.
Campus to commemorate those who died during 2011-12
September 4, 2012: Berkeley’s 11th annual campus memorial service, Thursday, Sept. 27, will honor those of its own who passed away during 2011-12.
Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67
August 1, 2012: Yale M. Braunstein, professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and a scholar of the economics of information and communications industries and systems, passed away at age 67.
Dr. Warren Winkelstein Jr., epidemiologist who led seminal AIDS, air pollution studies, dies at 90
July 31, 2012: Dr. Warren Winkelstein Jr., pioneering epidemiologist and former dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, died Sunday, July 22. He was 90. His career spanned six decades and included seminal contributions to the understanding of the transmission of HIV/AIDS, how air pollution affects health, heart disease in women and other health issues.
Visiting scholar, killed in bike accident, remembered on blog
July 16, 2012: Friends and colleagues of Shlomo Bentin are posting tributes to the life and contributions of noted Israeli psychologist on a new blog. Bentin, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, died in an accident near campus on Friday, July 13.
Memorial Monday for Haas professor Louis ‘Pete’ Bucklin
July 6, 2012: A memorial service will be held Monday for Louis “Pete” Bucklin, a marketing expert and business professor at UC Berkeley for more than 40 years. He passed away June 16, 2012, at the age of 83.
Pioneering space physicist Kinsey Anderson has died at 85
June 29, 2012: Kinsey A. Anderson, a professor emeritus of physics and an international leader in the field now called space physics, died June 11, 2012, at the age of 85.
Economics professor John Quigley, leading scholar of housing policy, urban economics, dies
May 17, 2012: Economist John Quigley, the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley with apppointments in the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Haas School of Business, passed away May 12 in Berkeley. He was a leading scholar of housing markets, energy-efficient buildings, homelessness and racial discrimination.
Noted classical archaeologist Crawford Greenwalt dies
May 10, 2012: Exploring the history and culture of the ancient city of Sardis in Turkey was a passion of classical archaeologist Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., who died on May 4.
Micro/Nanofabrication Lab mourns one of its own
March 22, 2012: BERKELEY — Colleagues of the late Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang, an engineer at UC Berkeley’s Marvell Nanolab, formerly Berkeley Microlab, wrote this obituary to honor his contributions to the lab, to the campus and to the many students he mentored. R. I. P. Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang, 1956-2012 Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang died of a heart attack suddenly on March 6. He was [...]
Feb. 27 campus memorial to honor former chancellor I. Michael Heyman
February 16, 2012:
A public memorial honoring the life of I. Michael Heyman, the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, at the International House, located in the southeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus.
Ira Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley chancellor, dies at 81 
November 21, 2011: Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990 and professor emeritus at the School of Law and in the Department of City & Regional Planning, has died. He was 81.
East Asia scholar Robert A. Scalapino dies at 92
November 4, 2011: Robert A. Scalapino, the Robson Research Professor of Government emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a renowned expert in the field of East Asian studies, died Monday, Nov. 1, in Oakland, of complications from a respiratory infection. He was 92.
Political scientist Harold Wilensky dies at age 88
November 1, 2011: Harold L. Wilensky, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, died at his Berkeley, Calif., home on Sunday, Oct. 30, after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 88.
Campus to remember those who died during 2010-11
September 7, 2011: Berkeley’s 10th annual campus memorial service, Wednesday, Sept. 28, will honor those of its own who passed away during 2010-11.
Jojo Mends, shuttle driver and Berkeley grad, dies at 62
August 24, 2011: Yokojo Sam “Jojo” Mends, a much-loved campus shuttle driver and UC Berkeley graduate, died August 14 at Eden Medical Center. The Ghanian native, who had worked in various roles on campus since 1983, was 62.
Lee Schipper, renowned energy analyst, dies at 64
August 19, 2011: Leon (Lee) Schipper, a world-renowned energy analyst who often critiqued U.S. energy policy, died Tuesday (Aug. 19), three months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 64.
