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December 15, 2008
Thomas Roach > Robert Zajonc Social psychologist Robert Zajonc, who conducted groundbreaking research on the complexities of social life, died after a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer Dec. 3 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 85. Born in Lodz, Poland, Zajonc’s parents were killed during World War II in a German air raid when he…
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October 13, 2008
Joseph Hawkins Jr. Joseph Hawkins Jr., professor emeritus at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, died Oct. 6 in Ann Arbor. He was 94. He was a physiologist and morphologist, a psychoacoustician, a student of animal behavior, a biochemist and a historian of auditory science. His research appeared in publications spanning from 1939-2006. In 1963 Hawkins…
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July 28, 2008
Dorwin Cartwright Dorwin “Doc” Cartwright, one of the founders of the field of group dynamics, died of chronic renal failure July 18 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. “Doc Cartwright was one of the pioneers in the field,” says social psychologist James S. Jackson, director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), where Cartwright…
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July 14, 2008
Ted Dielman Ted Dielman, professor emeritus of health behavior and health education and professor emeritus of medical education, died June 29 at home in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 68. Dielman was born Aug. 15, 1939, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Frederick Charles and Hazel Farrell Dielman. He grew up in Canton, Kansas,…
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June 23, 2008
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June 9, 2008
Walter Clark Jr. Walter Clark Jr., associate professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at LSA, died May 11 in Hancock, N. H., where he had built a house and retired in 1993. He was born Oct. 6, 1931, in Pittsfield, Mass., the son of Walter and Ruth O’Brien Clark. The family spent parts of…
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May 27, 2008
Arthur Burks Computer science and philosophy professor Arthur Burks, whose late-1940s work on the logic of computer programming helped to lay the foundation for the digital age, died May 14 in Ann Arbor. He was 92. Burks, an active faculty member for 40 years, also was one of the principal engineers of the first general…
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May 12, 2008
Dr. David Kurnit Dr. David Kurnit, former professor of pediatrics, died Jan. 30 at the age of 60. He was born Dec. 24, 1947, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Victor and Helen (Oxhandler) Kurnit. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Brooklyn College and his M.D.…
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April 28, 2008
Andrew Ehrenkreutz Andrew Ehrenkreutz, professor emeritus, scholar, historian, political activist and U-M football fan, died April 6 in Melbourne, Australia, following a crippling stroke. Friends and family remembered him as an individual who once thrust onto the stage of world history never stepped down, and in the process became bigger than life. Born in 1921…
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April 21, 2008
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