Dies

"I felt related to the battered Bobo doll," he wrote.In the end, his work caught on, and his insights become even more important in a world where social media and a 24-hour news cycle for models of violence have a much wider reach.The Bobo…

“In the psychoanalytic world, there has been this tendency to assume that everything is psychodynamic,” he added, noting that some doctors reflexively blamed mothers for their children's behavior.But dr. Hobson tempered his views in his…

In addition to his daughter, his wife Joan also survived.After taking over the Hughes Institute, Dr. Choppin likes to tell his colleagues a story about meeting their famous reclusive benefactor. In 1938, Hughes, an accomplished aviator…

Erin Gilmer, a disability rights attorney and activist who campaigned for medical privacy, lower drug prices, and a more compassionate health system when faced with a cascade of illnesses that left her unable to work for long periods of…

Dr. Lewontin was amazed at the harmfulness of sexism, even among his allegedly high-minded colleagues. "When speaking in front of an academic audience about the biological determination of social status, I have repeatedly tried the…

Dr. Barbara Murphy, a leading nephrologist specializing in advanced research focused on predicting and diagnosing kidney transplant results, died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where she had worked since 1997. She was 56…

Ei-ichi Negishi, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for developing techniques ubiquitous in the manufacture of medicines today, died in Indianapolis on June 6th. He was 85.His death in a hospital was announced by Purdue…

A curious, adventurous boy, he said he once threw a stone at a swarm of bees to see what they would do. As a teenager, he climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and experimented with gunpowder, gasoline, and fire.His father wanted Edward to follow…

Richard R. Ernst, a Swiss chemist who received the 1991 Nobel Prize for his work on refining nuclear magnetic resonance or NMR spectroscopy, the powerful chemical analysis method of MRT technology, died on June 4th in Winterthur in northern…

Personal humiliation inspired Lee Ross’s greatest insight.In 1969, when he defended his graduate dissertation at Columbia University, a committee of faculty members let loose a downpour of esoteric questions. Mr. Ross had done a study of…