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In memoriam

Sociologist Melvin Kohn dies at 92

Published March 25, 2021

A pioneer of the study of social structure and personality, Kohn spent 27 years teaching at the Krieger School

In memoriam

Mathematician J. Michael Boardman dies at 83

Published March 19, 2021

He taught at Johns Hopkins for 40 years before being named professor emeritus in 2010

In memoriam

Published Spring 2021

/ Johns Hopkins Magazine

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

In memoriam

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