Obituaries

Mechanical engineering professor Joseph LeConte Smith Jr. dies at 83Longtime director of Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory taught at MIT from 1956 to 2008.

‘He loved us, and we loved him’MIT community recalls fallen officer Sean Collier, who made a big impression in 15 months at MIT.

Professor emeritus Harold Wachman dies at 85Wachman chaired AeroAstro grad program

Professor emeritus Frederick J. McGarry dies at 86Polymer engineering professor, alumnus was at MIT for more than 50 years.

Robert C. O'Handley, former research scientist, dies at 70Was a longtime researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Robert Bishop, MIT economist and dean, dies at age 96A member of the MIT community for seven decades, he was a scholar of microeconomic theory, an innovative teacher, and a dean who helped expand the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, pioneer in nutrition research, dies at 95Institute Professor emeritus and recipient of the World Food Prize was the founder of MIT’s former Department of Nutrition and Food Science.

Pioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96An Institute Professor since 1966, he was an active member of the MIT faculty for 40 years.

MIT community mourns the loss of Sloan graduate student Heng ‘Nikita’ GuoPresident Reif urges members of the community to support one another.

Nuclear physicist Peter T. Demos dies at 94Longtime faculty member guided MIT’s Bates Linear Accelerator from a groundbreaking idea to a globally renowned center for the study of nuclear structure and reactions.

Leonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85Joined MIT faculty in 1953; studied control problems and dynamic modeling.

Jay K. Lucker, former director of the MIT Libraries, dies at 82Longtime library director remembered as a mentor and consultant.

Benson Rowell Snyder, former psychiatrist-in-chief at MIT, dies at 89

Angus MacDonald, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 86Alumnus’ wide-ranging MIT interests included neuroscience, aeronautics, political science and the arts and humanities.

Professor emeritus Elias P. Gyftopoulos dies at 84Longtime faculty member in nuclear and mechanical engineering was among the foremost thermodynamicists of his time.

George Gardner, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 94

William F. Brace, professor emeritus in EAPS, dies at 86Geologist helped develop systematic descriptions of key physical properties of rocks.

Lois Craig, former associate dean in the School of Architecture + Planning, dies at 82A trusted and valued adviser and colleague

Development economist Alice Amsden dies at 68MIT professor was a prolific scholar who wrote extensively about industrialization in emerging economies.

Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics

Robert Whitman, longtime CEE professor, dies at 84World-renowned geotechnical engineer and earthquake expert worked at MIT for more than 40 years.

‘A young man who was so spectacularly gifted’Family and friends recall MIT junior Brian G. Anderson.