Obituaries

July 30, 2021

Psychology Professor Albert Bandura dead at 95

Albert Bandura, the world-renowned social cognitive psychologist whose Bobo Doll experiments and theory of social learning transformed the field of psychology, has died.

Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences — July 22, 2021

Van A. Harvey, professor emeritus of religious studies, dies at 95

Van A. Harvey, a leading scholar of religious thought who helped shape the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford, has died.

Stanford Medicine — July 2, 2021

Paul Auerbach, wilderness-medicine pioneer, dies at 70

Paul Auerbach, a professor emeritus of emergency medicine at Stanford, led a life of inspiration, adventure and compassion, according to his colleagues.

Stanford Today — June 17, 2021

Longtime Stanford-in-Berlin lecturer dies

The Stanford community remembers Jochen Wohlfeil, a German lecturer who taught in the Bing Overseas Studies Program in Berlin for more than 30 years. He died recently in Germany.

Stanford Medicine — June 15, 2021

Herbert Leiderman, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, dies at 97

Leiderman led groundbreaking research into infant and child development that helped changed the way the world viewed newborns.

May 24, 2021

Psychology Professor Lee D. Ross dead at 78

Lee D. Ross, a world-renowned psychologist known for his work on biases in decision-making, has died.

Stanford Medicine — April 28, 2021

Jack Remington, infectious-disease expert and clinician, dies at 90

The Stanford physician devised a test that saved babies’ lives by showing whether they needed immediate treatment for a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis.

Stanford Medicine — April 1, 2021

Robert Baldwin, founding member of Stanford’s biochemistry department, dies at 93

Baldwin propelled leaps in scientists’ understanding of how proteins assemble themselves into the three-dimensional shapes that are essential to their function.

Stanford Medicine — March 24, 2021

Ernlé Young, co-founder of Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, dies at 88

An anti-apartheid activist, humanitarian, theologian, scholar, outdoorsman and skilled woodworker, Young co-founded the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Hoover Institution — March 23, 2021

British and European politics expert and Hoover Institution Emeritus Senior Fellow Gerald A. Dorfman dies at 81

Gerald A. Dorfman, emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor (by courtesy) of political science at Stanford University, passed away at the age of 81 on March 15, 2021.