Guilleminault, a prolific researcher who helped build Stanford’s sleep disorders clinic into an influential, full-service sleep center, died July 9 of cancer.
The inventor of acoustic and atomic force microscopes that revealed living cells in unprecedented detail and former chair of both Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering died July 6.
A member of the prestigious Académie Française, Michel Serres taught at Stanford’s Department of French and Italian for nearly 30 years. He died June 1 at 88.
The former associate dean at the Stanford School of Medicine helped form a minority admissions council that increased the number of students from underrepresented groups.
John L’Heureux directed the highly regarded Stanford Creative Writing Program and the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship program, where his proteges included, among many others, National Medal of Arts recipients.
A leader in the earliest days of robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nilsson led the development of one of the first autonomous robots.
Credited with helping to turn Stanford GSB into a model of academic excellence in the 1970s, Howell profoundly changed business schools around the world.
A leader of Stanford’s surgical residency program for close to a decade, Greco died March 31. He was a trailblazer in seeking greater work-life balance for surgical trainees.
Oscar Salvatierra founded Stanford’s pediatric kidney transplant program, helped write the national legislation that regulates organ transplants, and conducted research in kidney transplantation.
Susie Brubaker-Cole, vice provost for student affairs, offers sympathies to the family, loved ones, fellow students and friends of the graduate student who passed away.
Thomas Kane, who revolutionized how scientists study forces and motion and whose research helped spacecraft and astronauts orient properly in space, died at age 94.
James W. Lyons, dean of student affairs at Stanford for 18 years, has died. He also served as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education during his long career at the university.
A global leader in plant genetics and physiology, Briggs published landmark research on the molecular mechanisms that plants and other organisms use to sense and respond to light.
Jennifer Widom, dean of the School of Engineering, offers sympathies to the family, loved ones, fellow students and friends of the graduate student who passed away.
Eleanor Maccoby, the first woman to serve as chair of the Stanford Department of Psychology, was recognized for her scholarly contributions to gender studies and child and family psychology.
Timothy Josling, a professor emeritus at the former Food Research Institute known for his encyclopedic knowledge of international agricultural policy, died on Nov. 27.
Zhang was a rare theorist who concerned himself with the implications of his abstract ideas about new quantum states of matter on experiments and future technologies.
Herbert S. Lindenberger, a professor emeritus who founded Stanford’s Department of Comparative Literature and inspired generations of students and scholars, died on Oct. 1.
An expert in photovoltaic materials that helped pave the way for today’s solar cells, Bube was a prolific author and lecturer who tried to bridge the gap between science and religion.
An early advocate for computing and for expanding the role of women and minorities in engineering, William Kays led the School of Engineering during a time when academic and industry scientists were establishing Silicon Valley.
Cavalli-Sforza helped create the field of genetic geography and was one of the founders of cultural evolution, a theory that social change resembles a Darwinian evolutionary process.
Zohar Manna, who pioneered theoretical computer science techniques that today help form the basis for artificial intelligence and for reliable software, died at his home in Israel Aug. 30.
