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Barbara Bergmann, economist, emeritus professor at both American University and the University of Maryland and co-founder of the International Association for Feminist Economics, has died at 87. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/business/barbara-bergmann-trailblazer-for-study-of-gender-in-economics-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0

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Yale professor of computer science Paul Hudak in critical condition due to "the side effects of a stem cell transplant in 2010":

 

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/16/with-hudak-in-critical-condition-students-rally-behind-master-2/

And now he is dead:

 

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/30/hudak-spirited-saybrugian-and-cs-prof-succumbs-to-cancer/

 

He suffered from leukemia.

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"One of the pre-eminent historians of his generation", Peter Dead is gay at 91:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/arts/peter-gay-historian-who-explored-social-history-of-ideas-dies-at-91.html

 

Born in Germany, he fled the Nazis but his career still showed much interest in the modenr history of central Europe, for example, by his biography of Sigmund Freud, or his writing on jewish life in Germany.

 

(Peter Gay, for the search machine)

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Holger Olof Victorson Nygard, Professor Emeritus of English at Duke University, died at the age of 94 on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at his home by the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina. He was born to Viktor and Maria Nygard in the village of Bertby in Vora, Ostrobothnia, the Swedish part of Finland. His first language was Swedish.

 

"The Swedish part of Finland"?? You learn something new every day.

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http://www.enoriver.org/holger-nygard-obituary/

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Mary R. Sawyer has died at 71. In 1986 she began a 25-year career teaching Religious Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, where she co-founded the African American Studies Program, created a Peace and Justice Internship option, and was a voice for the empowerment of women.

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http://m.iowastatedaily.com/obituaries/article_5e7d1d52-00b9-11e5-a57c-0f3e6ef95fe7.html?mode=jqm

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I didn't even realise it at first, but that's the guy who wrote a very important book on the Alger Hiss case, a book I had to read during my ill-fated history studies. The Alger Hiss case was about the promising bureaucrat Alger Hiss in the 50s, basically he was a personified liberal (in the american sense) dream story, but then he was "outed" as a former communist by a fan of Joseph McCarthy named Whittaker Chambers, a deeply troubled and unsympathetic man. The case turned into an ideological battlefield where the tribalism of American politics was revealed.

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Chancellor isn't quite Univ Pres, so....

 

William Brantley Aycock, who headed North Carolina’s flagship university through a basketball scandal and a law banning Communists from speaking on campus, died at age 99, his daughter said Sunday.

Aycock was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1964. He died on Saturday from complications after a fall that resulted in fractured ribs, daughter Nancy Aycock said.

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http://sclawyersweekly.com/news/2015/06/22/former-unc-chapel-hill-head-william-b-aycock-dies-at-99/

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Paul Lioy, environmental scientist, dead at 68. Most renowned for his work analysing the health impact of dust thrown up in the 9/11 attacks.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/nyregion/paul-lioy-scientist-who-analyzed-9-11-dust-and-its-health-effects-dies-at-68.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytnational&_r=0

 

Dr. Lioy (pronounced LEE-oy) was an internationally renowned authority on exposure science, a field concerned chiefly with pollutants and toxins that straddles environmental science and occupational health. He was the author of “Dust: The Inside Story of Its Role in the September 11th Aftermath,” a book for a general readership published in 2010.

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Paul Lioy, environmental scientist, dead at 68. Most renowned for his work analysing the health impact of dust thrown up in the 9/11 attacks.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/nyregion/paul-lioy-scientist-who-analyzed-9-11-dust-and-its-health-effects-dies-at-68.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytnational&_r=0

 

Dr. Lioy (pronounced LEE-oy) was an internationally renowned authority on exposure science, a field concerned chiefly with pollutants and toxins that straddles environmental science and occupational health. He was the author of “Dust: The Inside Story of Its Role in the September 11th Aftermath,” a book for a general readership published in 2010.

 

Now he is dust, we are well prepared for the environmental impact of his particles.

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