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  • Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024

    March 15, 2024

    Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95.

  • Ursula Storb, immunologist and role model for women scientists, 1936-2023

    January 31, 2024

    Ursula Storb, MD, immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, died on December 15, 2023. She was 87 years old.

  • Bernard ‘Bernie’ O. Brown, former dean of Rockefeller Chapel who fostered community, 1930-2023

    November 03, 2023

    The Rev. Bernard “Bernie” O. Brown, retired dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and associate professor in the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College, died peacefully Oct. 7 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 93.

  • Franklin I. ‘Chris’ Gamwell, religious ethics scholar devoted to justice, 1937-2023

    September 21, 2023

    Franklin I. “Chris” Gamwell, the Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics, Philosophy of Religions, and Theology and dean of the Divinity School from 1980-1990, died Sept. 8 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 85.

  • Prof. Emeritus Melvin Rothenberg, UChicago mathematician and activist, 1934–2023

    September 01, 2023

    Melvin Gordon Rothenberg, a professor emeritus of mathematics who spent more than four decades making groundbreaking mathematical discoveries at the University of Chicago as well as teaching hundreds of students and contributing to social justice causes, died Aug. 1, 2023 at the age of 89.

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