This page contains links to obituaries of LBNL staff published online by either LBNL or University of California (UC) (for those individuals with joint appointments). A number of the following obituaries will contain links to additional information about the subject individual. If you know of additional Lab obituaries published online by LBNL or UC, please contact the LBNL Library at [email protected] so we can add them to this page.
Ahn, Joonhong, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area. For additional information, go here.
Alpen, Edward, Associate Lab Director
Anderson, Zack, SULI intern
Arasteh, Darish, An Efficient Windows Expert in the Environmental Energy Technologies Department
Asaro, Frank, Nuclear Chemist
Baker, William R. ‘Bill’, Berkeley Lab’s First Electrical Engineer
Barnes, Arlan ‘Red’, Lab Rigger
Beaudrow, Michael, Accelerator Operator at the Advanced Light Source
Bieniosek, Frank, Accelerator and Fusion Research Division. For additional information, go here.
Blair, Harold, Lab Firefighter
Blair, Steve, Facilities Division Engineer
Bodvarsson, Gudmundur (Bo) S., Earth & Environmental Sciences Area
Bragg, Robert, Lab Researcher
Bruzzone, Carol, Administrator With the Facilities Division and the Joint Genome Institute
Bruzzone, James, Facilities
Buhl, Fred, Building Technology and Urban Systems Division
Calvin, Melvin, Nobelist in Chemistry, 1961. For additional information go here.
Campisi, Judith, Senior Scientist in the Life Sciences Division
Cannon, Rowland M., Jr., Staff Scientist
Carroll, Bill, Environmental Energy Technologies Division Assistant Division Director
Cepeda, Mario, Engineering Technician
Chemla, Daniel, Director of the Advanced Light Source
Chew, Geoffrey, Theoretical Physicist. For additional information, go here.
Clark, Alan R., Lab Senior Scientist
Connick, Robert, Chemist. For more information go here.
Crowe, Kenneth, Distinguished Nuclear Physicist. For additional information go here.
Davis, James, Engineering Division.
Downing, Kenneth H., Senior Scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division
Echer, Chuck, Award-winning Scientific Research Associate at National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM)
Elioff, Tom, Accelerator Physicist and Former Deputy Director of the Accelerator Division
Ellis, Russell, Engineering Division
Escobar Carmen, Administrator in EETD’s Building Technology and Urban Systems Department
Espinoza, Jacob, Assistant Building Manager and Maintenance Machinist in Engineering Department
Eylon, Shmuel, Experimentalist with the Heavy Ion Fusion Sciences (HIFS) Program in the Accelerator and Fusion Division
Fadley, Charles “Chuck”, Pioneer in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Floyd, Sally, Lab Computer Scientist
Flynn, Paul, Lab Controller
Forte, Trudy, Senior Scientist in Life Sciences
Fraenkel, Zeev, Senior Scientist in Israel
Franck, Jack V., Prolific Inventor, One of First Two Electronic Technicians at Original Radiation Laboratory
Freedman, Stuart, Renowned Nuclear Physicist. For more on Freedman, go here.
Garcia, Maria Elena, Lab Support Employee in the Directorate
Geissler, Phillip, Chemical Sciences, Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science Program
Ghiorso, Albert, Nuclear Researcher and Legendary Hunter of Transuranic Elements
Gidal, George, Distinguished Physicist
Gil, Jaspal, Facilities Truck Driver
Gill-Johnson, Angela, Deputy Director for Operations for the Chemical Sciences Division
Glaser, Donald, Berkeley Lab Physicist, Biotech Pioneer, and Nobelist
Gold, Lois Swirsky, Long-time Member of the Life Sciences Division and Director of the Carcinogenic Potency Project
Goldhaber, Gerson, Renowned Physicist
Goldhaber, Judith (Judy), Science Writer at Berkeley Lab
Goulding, Fred, Berkeley Lab Emeritus Distinguished Staff Senior Scientist
Haller, Eugene, Leading Expert in Semiconductor Materials
Harris, William, NERSC Retiree
Harvey, Bernard, Mendelevium Co-Discoverer
Heinemann , Heinz, Senior Scientist
Henderson, Tom, Mechanical Engineering Retiree
Henle, Ingeborg, Lab Controller
Holbrook, Stephen, Biosciences Affiliate
Hollander, Jack, Nuclear Scientist
Hopkins, Craig, Mechanical Engineering Technician at the Advanced Light Source
Igbozurike Uba, Rudyard (Rudy), Regulatory Compliance Specialist in the Waste Management Group of the Environment, Health and Safety Division
Jackson, Alan, ATAP Accelerator Physicist
Jackson, John David ‘J.D.,’ Theoretical Physicist
Jackson, Keith, Member of Computational Research Division’s Advanced Computing Group
Jackson-Maeda, Gail, Administrative assistant for the Advanced Computing for Science Department (ACS) in the Computational Research Division
Jacobson, Susanna, A Lab Employee for 21 years
Jacquith, Bill, Lab’s Longtime Electronic Postmaster
Kennedy, Kurt, Materials Scientist in the Engineering Division
Kerth, Leroy T., Associate Lab Director and Senior Scientist
Kilcoyne, David, ALS Research Scientist
Killeen, John, First NERSC Director
Kincaid, Brian, First Director of ALS
Korneev, Valeri, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Geophysicist
Kresin, Vladimir, Senior Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division
Kunkel, Wulf, Fusion Group Lead
Lambertson, Glen, Accelerator Technology Pioneer
Landis, Donald, Senior Staff Electronics Engineer with the Engineering Division
Lawrence, Charles, Computer Engineer for the Telephone Systems Group, Information Technologies
Lawrence, Molly, Wife of E.O. Lawrence
Lewis, Steve, Engineering Division
Lippmann, Marcelo, Geothermal Energy Pioneer
Lofgren, Ed, Legendary Lab Physicist
Loken, Stu, Deputy director of the Physics Division
Ludewigt, Bernhard, Scientist in the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division’s Fusion Science & Ion Bream Technology (FS&IBT) Program
Lyman, John Tompkins, Senior Biophysicist
Lys, Jeremy, Physicist
Mandelstam, Stanley, Physicist
Mast, Terry, Physicist and Astronomer
McEvilly, Thomas, Earthquake Expert
Morrissey, Elmer, Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Morse, Oliver, Facilities and the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (now ETA)
Muller, Rolf, Associate Division Director of Materials & Molecular Research Division (MMRD)/Materials & Chemical Sciences Division (MCSD)
Narasimhan, T.N., Earth and Environmental Sciences. For more go here
Natarajan, Vijaya (Viji), Computer Systems Engineer for the Data Management Research Group in the Computational Research Division
Nelson, Chris, Microscopist at Berkeley Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM),
Nelson, Jerry, Father of the Keck Telescope. For more go here.
Nero, Tony, Energy Technologies Area
Nichols, Alex, Life Sciences Researcher
Nitsche, Heino, Leader of the Nuclear Science Division’s Heavy Element Group
Novakov, Tihomir (Tica), Senior Scientist with Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Olken, Frank, Scientific Data Management Scientist
O’Neil, Jim, Biosciences Researcher
Pyle, Robert V., Nuclear Engineering
Ramirez, Alice, Creative Services Employee
Ramsey, Chris, Engineer
Roberts, Glenn, Jr., Public Affairs Science Writer
Rock, Don, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area
Rosenfeld, Arthur H., Eminent Physicist, Inspirational Researcher, Energy Efficiency Maven. For more go here, here, and here. Also available is a video which highlights the legacy of Rosenfeld.
Ruzer, Lev, EETD Affiliate and Editor of the Aerosol Handbook
Rydberg, Björn, Life Scientist
Sauer, Kenneth, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division
Schipper, Leon (Lee), Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Schroeder, Ronald, Member of the Earth Sciences Division’s Geothermal staff
Schultz, Gene, Computer Security Expert
Seaborg, Glenn, Nobel Laureate Chemist, Discoverer of 10 Atomic Elements, Associate Director-at-Large of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University Professor of Chemistry for the University of California, and co-founder and chairman of the Lawrence Hall of Science
Searcy, Alan, Served as Associate Director and Head of the Lab’s Materials and Molecular Research Division (predecessor of the Materials Sciences Division)
Sessler, Andrew, Laboratory Director, Acclaimed Physicist and Humanitarian
Shirley, David, LBNL Director
Shirley, Virginia, Wife of Former LBL Director Dave Shirley and Member of the Nuclear Science Division’s Isotopes Project
Shugart, Howard, Physicist
Skinner, David, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Slepoy, Alex, Computational Research Division
Smith, Alan ‘Al’, Nuclear Scientist Specializi9ng in Science of Ultrasensitive Particle Detectors
Smith, Lloyd, Accelerator Theorist
Smith, Neville, Advanced Light Source Scientific Director. For more see here.
Stevens, Dave, Computing Scientist
Stevenson, Suzanne, Administrative Assistant in NERSC
Stoner, John, Head of Archives and Records, librarian and historian
Striplin, Leslie Laura, Provided Administrative in the Directorate and Facilities Fleet Operations
Taylor, Clyde, A Pioneer of Superconducting Magnet
Thomas, Gareth, Founder of Berkeley Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM). For more information see here and here.
Thompson, Al, Former Advanced Light Source Scientist
Tinoco, Ignacio, Biosciences Affiliate
Trilling, George, Lab Physicist
Turner, James O., Mechanical Engineer
Wagman, Gary S., Computer Scientist in the Physics Division
Walters, Wiley, Facilities Employee
Warnecke , Falk, Postdoctoral Fellow at the DOE JGI’s Microbial Ecology Program
Washburn, Jack, Materials Sciences Principal Investigator
Weaver, Harold, Rad Lab Researcher
Welcome, Michael, Member of NERSC’s Mass Storage Group. For more go here.
Westmacott, Kenneth, Former NCEM Director
White, Tara, Computing Sciences Administrator
Witherspoon, Paul A., Senior Faculty Scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. For more go here, here, and here.
Walukiewicz, Wladyslaw, Material Science Division, deputy program leader of Electronics Materials Program
Zisman, Michael, Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division’s Center for Beam Physics Researcher
Zolotorev, Max, Lab Physicist
Zumino, Bruno, Physicist and an Architect of Supersymmetry