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Memorials

This incomplete list recognizes those scholars whose insight, creativity, collegiality, and standards of excellence so enriched our department and our lives.

Daniel J. Alpert
Ansel C. Anderson
Peter Axel
John Bardeen
James Holley Bartlett
Frederick C. Brown
Richard Brown
Robert M. Clegg
Harry Drickamer
Bob I. Eisenstein
Laura B. Eisenstein
C. Peter Flynn
Donald M. Ginsberg
Edwin L. "Ned" Goldwasser
Andrew V. Granato
Paul Handler
Alfred O. Hanson
Alfred Wilhelm Hubler
Lorella M. Jones
Leo P. Kadanoff
James S. Koehler
Ulrich E. Kruse
Leo S. Lavatelli
David Lazarus
Francis Wheeler Loomis
Ernest M. Lyman
Dillon E. Mapother
Robert J. Maurer
William L. McMillan
Thomas A. O'Halloran
Vijay R. Pandharipande
David Pines
Clark S. Robinson
Cameron B. Satterthwaite
J. Robert Schrieffer
Klaus J. Schulten
Frederick Seitz
Charles P. Slichter
Harvey J. Stapleton
Jeremiah Sullivan
Albert Wattenberg
James E. Wiss
William Wyld

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