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David Lazarus

David Lazarus passed away on his 90th birthday, 8 September 2011. A professor of physics emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Lazarus was a distinguished condensed-matter physicist, a highly regarded teacher at all levels, and a staunch advocate for basic scientific research and its impact on society.

Robert Blinc

Leading Slovene physicist Robert Blinc, a trailblazer in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for phase-transition and liquid-crystal studies, passed away due to complications from a protracted illness on 26 September 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Herbert Aaron Hauptman

Mathematician and crystallographer Herbert Aaron Hauptman died on 23 October 2011 in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 94. Herb, as he was known by his friends and colleagues, was a co-recipient, with Jerome Karle, of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing mathematical methods to determine crystal structures.