Frank W. Fitch, Professor Emeritus in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and influential researcher in monoclonal antibody and T cell cloning, passed away April 2, 2021. He was 91.
Dr. Jean-Paul Spire, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology and 2008 winner of the Gold Key Award for outstanding service to the BSD and UChicago, passed away March 20, 2021. He was 78.
Max S. Bell, Professor Emeritus in the Division of the Social Sciences and the co-author of the widely-used curriculum Everyday Mathematics, passed away March 6, 2021. He was 90.
Tetsuo Najita, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, and a “complex, brilliant” scholar of Japanese history, passed away January 11. He was 84.
Roger Hildebrand, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics and a pioneering particle physicist and astrophysicist, passed away January 21, 2021. He was 98.