Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Remembering Jim Simons

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  Here's the memorial page from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Remembering Jim Simons HT: Vijay Vazirani ########### E...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Danny Kahneman, remembered by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: Nobel Prize Winner & CASBS Legend "Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate, professor emeritus of psycholo...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

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  The eminent primatologist Frans de Waal has passed away. Here's a memoriam from Emory University: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal re...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Richard Slayman: first recipient of pig kidney transplant dies after two months. (RIP)

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 Here's the story from the Guardian: Pig kidney ‘xenotransplant’ patient dies two months later . No indication that Richard ‘Rick’ Slaym...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jim Simons (1938-2024)

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  Jim Simons, the great investor and philanthropist of math and computer science, died yesterday. Here's the announcement from the Simo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Danny Kahneman (1934-2024)

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  Danny Kahneman passed away today. Here's the Washington Post obituary: Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90. He found...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The year in passings

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Another year, more memories and memorials: Sunday, January 29, 2023 Paul David (1935-2023) Monday, January 30, 2023 Tonya Ingram (1991-2022)...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Who Shall Live? (3rd edition) by Victor R. Fuchs and Karen Eggleston

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Shortly before he passed away in September at the age of 99, Vic Fuchs finished the third edition of his book Who Shall Live? , now with a c...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Memorial service for Vic Fuchs

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  Yesterday, at Etz Chayim Synagogue,  Palo Alto. Here is my brief eulogy: Vic was the patriarch of a clan, and a man of wide and old friend...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Vic Fuchs (1924-2023)

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My friend and neighbor Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, passed away on Friday.   He was just a few months short of 100, bu...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Lloyd Shapley (1923-2016) Centennial

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 Lloyd Harlow Shapley was born in 1923: he would be (and I guess is) 100 years old this year.  His family is assembling a website honoring h...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Harry Markowitz (1927-2023)

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 Harry Markowitz, who invented modern portfolio theory, and did much beside, has died. Here's his NYT obituary, which was apparently pre...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Leo Hurwicz (1917-2008), biography

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  Here's a web site devoted to the biography of Leo Hurwicz, by his son Michael: Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer
Monday, March 20, 2023

Victor Elias (1937-2023)

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Victor Elias died last week, at 85.  He had a strong influence on academic economics in Argentina, not least through the many influential Ar...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Tonya Ingram (1991-2022), health activist, died while waiting for a kidney

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 Tonya Ingram, a poet and health activist who testified in Congress about the long waiting list for kidney transplants, died last month whil...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Paul David (1935-2023)

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 My Stanford colleague Paul David has died. He was an exceptional, iconic economic historian. Gavin Wright has written this obit: Professor ...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

The year in passings

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 We come to the end of another long year. Saturday, December 10, 2022 Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022) Monday, October 17, 2022 Jacques Drèze (192...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022)

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  Amnon Rapoport , a pioneer of experimental game theory, has died.  Here's a brief obituary: Amnon Rapoport, Distinguished Professor Em...