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UC Berkeley alumna and pioneer of “new journalism” Joan Didion died Thursday, Dec. 23, due to Parkinson’s disease at the age of 87
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Robert “Bob” Powell, campus political science professor, died Dec. 13.
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Professor John Morgan, an economist who discovered new methods of game theory analysis and taught popular classes at UC Berkeley, died at age 53 on Oct. 6 in his home in Walnut Creek.
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Ellen Weis, author, Museum of Modern Mythology director and Berkeley publicist, died of brain cancer on July 27 at age 64.
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Philip Kreycik, Berkeley resident, long-distance runner, outdoor enthusiast and father, died at age 37 after disappearing on a run in Pleasanton on July 10.
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Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.
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Known as a deep thinker, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of biochemistry and structural biology Alexander Glazer died at the age of 86 on July 18.
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Willie White, known widely in the track and field world for his work both on and off the field, died June 29 at the age of 82.
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Distinguished senior scientist emeritus Arthur Poskanzer spent the majority of his career working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, where he developed some of his great achievements in nuclear physics. He died June 30, two days after his 90th birthday.
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David Wake, a widely-loved and respected UC Berkeley professor emeritus of integrative biology and the world’s leading salamander expert, died April 29 at the age of 84.
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