Obituary

Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar who ‘made conversation glitter’

Tributes paid to a ‘visionary’ and ‘far-sighted’ computer scientist

Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar and mentor who brought greater focus on gender to the study of politics

Tributes paid to ‘superb scholar’ whose achievements as a historian of science matched his prowess as an engineer

Tributes paid to a ‘spellbinding lecturer’ and ‘beloved teacher’ appointed by President Kennedy to lead a major memorial project

Tributes paid to researcher who invented pioneering DNA testing technique and championed women in science

Tributes paid to ‘a brilliant, warmly sympathetic scholar-critic’ whose experience of war informed his work

Tributes paid to an expert on the theory and practice of democratic politics whose ‘intellectual brilliance’ was matched by a strong ‘sense of scholarly camaraderie’

Tributes paid to ‘a committed visionary’ whose research and lobbying helped transform the Californian legal system

Tributes paid to an academic ‘free spirit’ who applied economic principles to gambling and car parking permits

Tributes paid to ‘brilliant and gracious’ scholar who broke new ground in study of literature and ecofeminism

Global tributes paid to a leading expert in industrial relations

Tributes paid to a scholar whose passions ranged from Tamil Buddhism to Bob Marley

Tributes paid to leading chemist who helped illuminate nature and properties of nanoparticles and nanoalloys

Tributes paid to founder of world-system analysis

Tributes paid to a ‘philosopher’s philosopher’ 

Tributes paid to tireless independent scholar who wrote two outspoken memoirs as well as some classic studies of the history of science

Tributes paid to ‘socially committed’ expert on Africa and the Mediterranean

Tributes paid to ‘one of Europe’s most revered philosophers and outspoken dissidents’

Tributes paid to long-serving political science professor

Tributes paid to a scholar with ‘empathy’ for understanding people of different faiths

Tributes paid to a poet and scholar of medieval literature who ‘rendered the world brighter’

Tributes paid to a scientist who narrowly missed a Nobel

Activist who repeatedly broke new ground for African American academics remembered

Tributes paid to ‘one of the greatest humanists of the early 21st century’

Tribute paid to internationally renowned South African chemist

Tributes paid to psychologist who put counselling on a scientific footing

Tributes paid to a pioneer of applying computer power to university administration

Former president who won an ‘Emmy’ for his work to open US courtrooms to television cameras remembered

Tributes paid to energy engineer with a passion for helping the environment

Tributes paid to Harvard’s first tenured black professor

Tributes paid to ‘gentlemanly’ scholar of folklore, fairy tales and fantasy fiction

Tributes paid to internationally renowned figure in technology education

Tributes paid to leading scholar of French colonial history

Tributes paid to a leading biochemist who went on to become the third vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia

Anthropologist who stood up for her discipline remembered

Tributes paid to Regius professor of engineering at Edinburgh

Tributes paid to ‘most influential Irish historian of his generation’

Tributes paid to University of Washington vice-president for innovation strategy

Tributes paid to victim of Ethiopian Airlines crash

Tributes paid to a scholar who revolutionised study of the world’s earliest known written language

Tributes paid to founder of University of Warwick’s WMG

Tributes paid to footballer turned queer theorist

Tributes paid to oceanographer who played key role in Allied war effort during the Second World War

Tributes paid to ‘greater scholar of the old school’ who was a renowned expert on Antonio Gramsci

Tributes paid to Chicago authority on Buddhism

Tributes paid to historian who transformed our understanding of early modern England

Tributes paid to leading research integrity expert

Scholar of race and urban history remembered

Tributes paid to expert on Romanticism who was also a powerful poet in his own right

Tributes paid to leading haematologist who transformed our understanding of blood clotting

Tributes paid to nun who was a pioneer of women’s education

Former president of University of Victoria remembered

Tributes paid to founder of Stanford University’s department of comparative literature

Tributes paid to pastor, foreign policy expert and college president

Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London

Tributes paid to pioneering authority on human-computer interaction

Tributes paid to Cambridge literary critic

Tributes paid to radio host turned literary scholar

Tributes paid to expert in English language testing