Obituary

Through research and decades of teaching, Leifer explored how people create together – and helped generations of engineers put those insights into practice.

A dedicated mentor, Fagen conducted research in Cuba and helped academics threatened by Chile’s military regime.

Over an academic career spanning nearly five decades, Gilson helped establish corporate governance as a major interdisciplinary field.

The Stanford professor helped make computational fluid dynamics practical, then developed methods to improve aircraft designs using computer simulations.

The longtime Stanford law professor is remembered as one of California’s most effective environmental legislators, authoring the state’s renewable energy mandate and its first law to mention global warming.

The beloved Stanford professor pioneered research on plant cell growth and taught a popular wine course.

An expert in using X-rays to study minerals and their interactions with the environment, Brown spent half a century at Stanford pushing new scientific boundaries.

Lehman helped discover DNA polymerase, co-discovered DNA ligase and fostered the collaborative culture that shaped Stanford Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry.

Known for his study of liquids and other materials, Andersen used groundbreaking computer-based methods to expand our understanding of complex systems.

Luenberger’s doctoral research gave rise to a technique that aerospace and robotics engineers still use to track the hidden behavior of complex systems.