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In Memoriam


 

Frederick T Addicott

Professor Emeritus of Botany
1913-2008
Dr. Addicott was an authority on abscission, the process by which plants shed their leaves and fruits. He led a UC Davis research group that identified abscisic acid, a hormone that allows plants to adapt to stress.
 

Daniel  Axelrod

Professor emeritus
1910-1998
Read about Dr. Axelrod's life.
 

Ronald  Baskin

Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Cellular Biology
1935 - 2010
Read about Dr. Baskin's life
 

Don  Carlson

Professor emeritus of biochemistry
1931-2009
Dr. Carlson was an expert on glycoproteins.
 

Simon . Chan

Associate Professor & HHMI and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator
1974-2012
Learn more about Dr. Chan's life and research.
 

Barbara  Chapman

Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
1963-2013
Learn more about Dr. Chapman's life and research.
 

Ernest M Gifford

Professor Emeritus Plant Biology
1920-2006
 

Leslie D. Gottlieb

Professor in Evolution and Ecology
1936 - 2012
 

Robert  Hungate

Professor emeritus of microbiology
1906 – 2004
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be sent to the EWU Foundation/Hungate Scholarship, 127 Hargreaves, Cheney, WA 99004. The scholarship was established by Hungate during his lifetime to support Native American education.
 

Everett  Jameson

Professor Zoology
1921 - 2010
Read about Dr. Jameson
 

Edward G Jones

Professor Emeritus
1939-2011
Jones joined the UC Davis faculty in 1998 as director of the Center for Neuroscience and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine. In the same year, he ascended to the presidency of the international Society for Neuroscience. In 2004, he was elected to membership in National Academy of Sciences. Through these and other leadership positions, he promoted the integration of approaches in cellular and molecular biology to neuroscience research and recruited scientists across multiple disciplines to address fundamental questions about brain function and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric diseases. After his retirement, Jones continued to conduct research and held a 35 percent appointment as a professor in the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology.
 

Joel  Keizer

Director, Institute of Molecular Dynamics
1942-1999
Read about Dr. Keizer
 

Frederick  Lorenz

Professor emeritus of animal physiology
1909 - 2010
Dr. Lorenz joined the faculty in 1938 and in 1964 became the first chair of the newly formed Department of Animal Physiology. After becoming a professor emeritus in 1974, he studied human psychophysiology with a special emphasis on biofeedback. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he helped found the Davis Art Center.
 

Allen  Marr

Professor emeritus of bacteriology
1929-2008
Read about Dr. Marr's life.
 

Wiltraud “Willi”  Pfeiffer

Lecturer
1934-1993
Read about Dr. Pfeiffer's life.
 

Timothy  Prout

Professor Emeritus of Evolution and Ecology
1923 – 2009
 

Donald Montgomery "Monte" Reynolds

Professor emeritus of Microbiology
1918-2001
 

Mortimer P. Starr

Professor of Microbiology

 

G. Ledyard Stebbins

Professor Emeritus of Evolution and Ecology
1906-2000
Dr. Stebbin's singular scientific accomplishment was to apply the principles of modern evolutionary biology to plants. Read more about his life.
 

C. Ralph Stocking

Professor Emeritus of Botany
1913-2006
Dr. Stocking's research interests were in water relations of plants, photosynthesis and chloroplasts, including the landmark finding of DNA in chloroplasts in a study conducted with Dr. Gifford.

Dr. Stocking's family requests that memorial donations be made to hospice programs, or to the Elsie J. Stocking Fellowship fund. Checks should be made payable to UC Regents, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, designating the fund.
 

Paul  Stumpf

professor emeritus of molecular and cellular biology
1919-2007
Read about Dr. Stumpf's life.
 

Robert M Thornton



 

Catherine A Toft

Professor emeritus of evolution and ecology
1950-2011
Professor Toft had a bachelor’s degree in fisheries and wildlife biology from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in population biology from Princeton, and carried out her career as a professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, from where she retired in 2010. Over her time at UCD, her research was published in various prestigious journals, and she also authored on a major work on parrots.

In addition to her professional work, she was also deeply involved in various charitable causes, such the promotion of the environment, and collie rescue, especially in the resolution of animal hoarding cases, where she worked tirelessly to provide care and find new homes for abused animals.
 

John  Tucker

Professor emeritus of botany
1916-2008
Read about Dr. Tucker's life here.
 

Grady  Webster

professor emeritus
1927-2005
Read about Dr. Webster's life.