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In memoriam

IN MEMORIAM

J. Hillis Miller, noted literary critic and theorist, dies at 92

Published Feb 23, 2021

Longtime KSAS English professor made deconstruction more widely accessible

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Professor emeritus Mack Walker dies at 91

Published Feb 16, 2021

An esteemed scholar of German intellectual history, he taught in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins for 25 years

Professor emeritus Paul R. Olson dies at 95

Published Jan 29, 2021

He was a scholar of Spanish and Portuguese literature and spent 30 years teaching at Johns Hopkins University

In memoriam

Pioneering immunologist Nilabh Shastri dies at 68

Published Jan 27, 2021

Shastri, who explored how the human immune system recognizes rapidly changing foreign elements, joined Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2018

Peter Privalov, father of the field of biological microcalorimetry, dies at 88

Published Dec 23, 2020

The research professor, who joined Johns Hopkins in 1991, laid the theoretical groundwork and developed the technology for measuring the heat released during protein folding within a cell

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Junior remembered for leadership, service, infectious enthusiasm

Published Dec 15, 2020

Bradlee LaMontagne, a biology major and captain of the Blue Jays wrestling team, died in a boating accident on Dec. 10

In memoriam

Richard Johns, founding director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, dies at 95

Published Dec 5, 2020

Johns oversaw the department's development into an internationally recognized leader in biomedical engineering

In memoriam

Renowned cardiac surgeon Vincent L. Gott dies at 93

Published Dec 4, 2020

Gott, who spent 50 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was a pioneer of the field of cardiac surgery, is remembered for his humility and civility