In Memoriam

Updating this page is my least favorite thing to do.

Here I am remembering people I have worked with and now miss.

Number on this list: 73.


Paul Lieber, December 12, 1992, age 74, Obit

Richard M. Goodwin, August 13, 1996, age 83, Wikipedia

Nina Graboi, December 13, 1999, age 81, Obit

Terence McKenna, April 03, 2000, age 53, Obit

Charles Muses, August 26, 2000, age 81; Math, Philosophy

Francisco Varela, May 28, 2001, age 54 Wikipedia

Arthur Iberall, 2002, age 84 Bio

Andra Akers, March 20, 2002, age 58, Obit

Heinz von Foerster, October 2, 2002, age 90, Wikipedia

Frank Barron, October 6, 2002, age 80 Obit

Rene Thom, October 25, 2002, age 79, Obit

Emilia Hazelip, February 1, 2003, age 64 Wikipedia

Bela H. Banathy, September 4, 2003, age 83, Wikipedia

David Fowler, April 13, 2004, age 66; Math, History of math

James E. White, July 17, 2004, creator of mathwright.com

Adrien Douady, November 2, 2006, age 71 Wiki Obit

Bob Solomon, January 2, 2007, age 64, Obit

Anatol Rapoport, January 20, 2007, age 95, Obit

Will McWhinney, April 3, 2007, age 77 LA Times Obit

Ed Lorenz, April 16, 2008, London Telegraph London Independent NY Times

John Wheeler, April 17, 2008, Obit

Albert Hoffman, April 29, 2008, age 102, AP Obit

Gottfried Mayer-Kress, January 25, 2009, age 54, Comdig Notice

Barbara Vogl, July 8, 2009, age 85, Memorial

Simon Vinkenoog, July 12, 2009, age 82 Wikipedia entry

Bob Hall, July 27, 2009, age 86

Leon Tabory, September 29, 2009, age 83

Lew Fein, February 28, 2010

Floris Takens, June 20, 2010, age 69

Jerrold E. Marsden, September 22, 2010, age 68 My remembrance

Benoit Mandelbrot, October 14, 2010, age 85 NY Times obit

Jose Arguelles, March 22, 2011, age 72

Max Hartstein, August 8, 2011, age 82

Leonid Pavlovich Shilnikov, December 27, 2011, age 77 Memorial, 2009

Sherrie Rabinowicz, April 8, 2012, age 62

Arthur Greenspoon, February 5, 2013 (from the Eagle Flying Group, Princeton University, 1968) Obit

David Peat, June 6, 2013, age 79

Michael A. Buchner, December 6, 2013 (from the Eagle Flying Group, Princeton University, 1968) Obit

Jack Henry Moore, April 2, 2014, age 73 Obit

Gerald Spencer Goodman, November 10, 2014, age 80

Loren (Dutch) White, January 14, 2015, age 78 Obit

Karl Pribram, January 29, 2015, age 95 Home page

Peter Demma, August 28, 2015, age 78 Announcement

David Finkelstein, January 24, 2016, age 86 Bio

Chris Zeeman, February 13, 2016, age 91 Obit

Walter Jackson Freeman, April 24, 2016, age 89 Obit

Uzek (Joe) Lysowski, July 25, 2016, age 77 Autobiography

Francis Huxley, October 29, 2016, age 93 Obit

Jay Forrester, November 17, 2016, age 98 Obit, More info

Huston Smith, January 1, 2017, age 97 Obit

Michael O'Nan, July 31, 2017, age 73 Obit

Timothy Poston, August 22, 2017, age 72 Obit

Marvin Jay Greenberg, December 12, 2017, age 81 Memorial Site

Page Stegner, December 14, 2017, age 80 Wikipedia page, Obit

Fred McPherson, November, 2018, age 80 SCMBC

Ralph Metzner, March 14, 2019, age 82 Obit, SF Chronicle

William Levy, April 22, 2019, age 80 Wikipedia entry

Mauricio Matos Peixoto, April 28, 2019, age 98 Obit by Jorge Sotomayor

Robert Hermann, February 10, 2020, age 88 Obit

William Irwin Thompson, November 8, 2020, age 82 My memorial

Mary Catherine Bateson, January 2, 2021, age 81

Harold Widom, January 20, 2021, age 88, of COVID Obit

Gene Youngblood, April 7, 2021, age 78

Dean Quarnstrom, August 13, 2021, age 78

Nicholas Burgogne, December 7, 2021, age 89 of COVID Obit

David Loye, January 25 2022, age 97 of COVID Obit

Stan Tenen, January 30, 2022, age 79

Hazel Henderson, May 21, 2022, age 89

James Lovelock, July 26, 2022, age 103

Newton Harrison, September 4, 2022, age 89 

Paul A. Lee Jr, October 20, 2022, age 91 Obit

Linda Burman-Hall, August 21, 2023, age 78

Glenn Allen Howard, September 13, 2023, age 75


Revised October 11, 2023 by Ralph H. Abraham