In Memory
Members of the Stanford community remember those who have passed away this year.
In Memory
Stanford remembers
2016
February
Holbrook Kohrt, a clinician-researcher who studied novel ways to arm the immune system to fight cancer, died Feb. 24 in Miami.
Edward J. McCluskey, a professor emeritus who was a pioneering computer researcher and educator, died Feb. 13 in Belmont, Calif.
Ellen Cook Otto, who worked in various development offices at Stanford for decades until she retired from the Department of Athletics, died Feb. 10 in Cupertino, Calif.
Harry Oberhelman, a professor emeritus of surgery and former chief of general surgery and gastrointestinal surgery, died Feb. 10 in Stanford.
Sanford M. Dornbusch, a scholar renowned for his research on adolescence who was a "founding father" of Stanford's Department of Sociology, died Feb. 9 in Palo Alto.
January
Herbert Abrams, a professor emeritus of radiology, senior fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for International Security and Cooperation who co-founded the Nobel Prize-winning organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, died Jan. 20 in Palo Alto.
Oleg Jardetzky, a professor emeritus of molecular pharmacology who was a pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, died Jan. 10 in Stanford.
Paul Armer, an early director of the Stanford Computation Center and faculty member who was a pioneer in computing and its social implications, died Jan. 6 in Stanford.