Category: Obituaries
Arnall Patz, 89, director emeritus of the Wilmer Eye Institute
March 12, 2010
Arnall Patz, director emeritus of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, a pivotal figure in the history of ophthalmology and the recipient of both a Presidential Medal of Freedom and an Albert Lasker Award—often called the “American Nobel”—for his groundbreaking research into the causes and prevention of blindness, died on March 11. Patz, who […]
M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman, 85, international expert in river science
March 1, 2010
(Read President Ronald J. Daniels’ message to the Johns Hopkins community regarding the passing of “Reds” Wolman) M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education, and an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died at his […]
Barton Childs, 93, eminent Hopkins pediatrician, geneticist
March 1, 2010
Barton Childs, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a legendary geneticist and teacher who influenced the practice of generations of physicians and shaped their understanding of inherited disease, died Feb. 18 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital after a short illness. He was 93. “We have lost a giant […]
Alan J. Goldman, 77, expert in operations research
March 1, 2010
Alan J. Goldman, a widely respected expert in operations research who spent more than three decades on the faculty of the Whiting School’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, died Feb. 13 at his home in Baltimore. A memorial gathering in his honor will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, March […]
M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman, 85, international expert in river science
February 26, 2010
(Read President Ronald J. Daniels’ message to the Johns Hopkins community regarding the passing of “Reds” Wolman) M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education, and an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died at his […]
Carl E. Taylor, 93, founded academic discipline of international health
February 15, 2010
Carl E. Taylor, founder of the academic discipline of international health and a man of spiritual conviction who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world’s marginalized people, died Feb. 4 in Baltimore from prostate cancer. He was 93.
Raymond Westbrook, 62, authority on ancient Near East law
August 3, 2009
Raymond Westbrook, the W.W. Spence Professor in Semitic Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died on July 23 in London following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62. Westbrook, who came to Johns Hopkins in 1987, was considered the leading authority on ancient […]
Giovanni Arrighi, 71, brought bold perspective to social theory
July 6, 2009
Giovanni Arrighi, the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Sociology, died on June 18 at his home in Baltimore after a yearlong battle with cancer.
Obituary: Philip Curtin, 87, expert on African, comparative world history
June 22, 2009
Tirelessly energetic, often controversial and invariably stimulating, Curtin played a catalytic role in scholarly debates over African and world history.