Academic Footnotes

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Gary Gutting, a philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, has died.  He was 76.

 

http://dailynous.com/2019/01/20/gary-gutting-1942-2019/

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Paul Streeten, Boston University economics prof and DDP pick, died on January 6 without anyone noticing. No sign of a QO. 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Colin Barker, an Oxford-educated British sociologist, Marxist historian & author and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1967 to 2002, has died.  He was 79 or 80.

 

http://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/02/04/colin-barker-1939-2019/

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Anne Firor Scott, who helped establish the field of women’s history and taught at Duke for three decades, has died.  She was 97.

 

https://today.duke.edu/2019/02/womens-history-pioneer-anne-firor-scott-has-died-97

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

John Tyler Bonner, who trained at Harvard and was later long associated with Princeton, chairing its Biology Department on three separate occasions, has died.  He was 98.  Currently, I can find a blog acknowledging his death, but no proper obit.

 

https://freethoughtblogs.com/fierceroller/?p=5608

 

Edit:

 

Obit:  https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/02/15/microbiologist-john-bonner-leading-expert-cellular-slime-molds-dies-98

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Simon Norton, a British mathematician and the subject of the 2011 biography 'The Genius in My Basement', has died.  He was 66.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/15/simon-norton-mathematical-prodigy-became-subject-biography-genius/

 

[charon 4,943]

 

 

The UKs first Professor of Disability Studies, Michael Oliver, has died.

 

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Herman Willington Dorsett, a founding professor at Florida International University (they opened their doors in 1972) and a leader in many educational, civic and business organizations, died March 2 of congestive heart failure. He was 78.
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[gcreptile 10,964]

Mary Warnock, ethics philosopher with a political reach, dead at 94:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/21/philosopher-mary-warnock-dies-aged-94-special-needs-fertility

 

Picked in the Death by Numbers, at least.

[maryportfuncity 10,642]

Just seen Mike Oliver - the world's first professor of Disability Studies - died earlier this month.

 

Actually far from an arrogant academic - famed as a down to earth type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Oliver_(disability_advocate)

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

2 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

Just seen Mike Oliver - the world's first professor of Disability Studies - died earlier this month.

 

Actually far from an arrogant academic - famed as a down to earth type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Oliver_(disability_advocate)

Very down to earth now.

[maryportfuncity 10,642]

2 minutes ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Very down to earth now.

 

Aye, it's a win-win cremation, they get his ashes and melt down his chair in one hit

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Ralph Brill taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology for some 50 years, developing a legal writing program that became a national model for teaching concise, clear writing and the research behind it.

Brill, 83, died June 21 of natural causes in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He lived for more than 30 years in the Printer’s Row neighborhood of Chicago.
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[alt obits guy 3,371]

James Johnston, a Stanford mechanical engineering professor and one of the foremost authorities in fluid dynamics, has died.  He was 88.

 

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/07/23/james-johnston-expert-fluid-dynamics-died/

 

[maryportfuncity 10,642]

3 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

James Johnston, a Stanford mechanical engineering professor and one of the foremost authorities in fluid dynamics, has died.  He was 88.

 

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/07/23/james-johnston-expert-fluid-dynamics-died/

 

 

For his funeral he'll be fed into a giant blender

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Desmond Morton, a noted historian and McGill University professor emeritus, has died.  He was 81. Morton authored 40 books on Canadian history.  

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desmond-morton-historian-1.5271672

 

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

'World renowned roboticist',  Dr Peter B Scott-Morgan, has decided to become a cyborg in an attempt to counter the effects of motor neurone disease...

[gcreptile 10,964]

5 hours ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

'World renowned roboticist',  Dr Peter B Scott-Morgan, has decided to become a cyborg in an attempt to counter the effects of motor neurone disease...

Remarkable in a couple of ways, thanks!

[Sir Creep 7,070]

David Schuman, a law professor at the University of Oregon and a retired Oregon Court of Appeals judge, died Tuesday. He was 75.
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[alt obits guy 3,371]

Harold Bloom, an American literary critic, iconic Yale professor and author, has died.  He was 89.

 

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/10/14/sterling-professor-harold-bloom-dies-at-89/

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

1 minute ago, alt obits guy said:

Harold Bloom, an American literary critic, iconic Yale professor and author, has died.  He was 89.

 

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/10/14/sterling-professor-harold-bloom-dies-at-89/

 

 

Was on my shortlist for 2020, heard he was completely away with the fairies in a care home.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Was on my shortlist for 2020, heard he was completely away with the fairies in a care home.

With that pronouncement I'm interested to see if he comes close to a QO.

.... and lo what have we here - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/14/harold-bloom-literary-critic-yale-professor-dies-89

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Rom Harré, whose career included a 30 year stint in the Oxford University philosophy department, has died.  He was 91.

 

http://dailynous.com/2019/10/18/rom-harre-1927-2019/

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

God I hate this thread's title. Anyway, Noel Ignatiev, writer of How the Irish Became White, one of the key "destroy whiteness" texts, has died. He was the only man in the world who had an anti-semitic toaster. 

[msc 18,437]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

God I hate this thread's title.

 

Yeah, it was shit.

 

Thanks @Death Impends!