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.
