Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the interstellar and intergalactic mediums, died Dec. 26 at the age of 81.
Harvey M. Golomb, AB’64, the Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor and former chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, died on August 20, 2025. He was 82 years old.
Choudhri Mohammed Naim, better known as C.M. Naim, passed away in Hyde Park on July 9. Naim—called Naim Sahib by his students and colleagues, using the Urdu honorific—was 89.
Edward Anders, a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Chicago who helped map the history of the solar system before dedicating his retirement to documenting the Holocaust, died June 1 at the age of 98.
