Member Obituaries

The Society for Neuroscience acknowledges deceased members by listing obituaries. Recent deaths are listed below. View the archive for a complete list of submitted member obituaries.

Submission Guidelines
Send obituaries to membership@sfn.org. Please include:

Individuals's full name
Date of birth and death
Educational and professional affiliations
Other relevant details
A photo (if available)
Limit notices to 500 words [Note: SfN may edit content for spelling and punctuation]

Recent Obituaries
A list of notices from the past year:

Robert Galambos – Auditory system pioneer, whose work included deciphering the codes by which nerves transmit sounds to the brain and how bats navigate in total darkness.
Leif Finkel - Professor of Bioengineering at Penn.
James A. Joseph - Director of the Neuroscience Laboratory at the USDA-ARS Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University.
Philip Siekevitz - an original member of the ASCB and the Society’s sixth president; contributed significant advances to the field of modern cell biology.
Jerry J Buccafusco - Beloved husband, father, and an internationally renowned researcher.
Robert L. Thompson - Founding member of the Society for Neuroscience, Professor Emeritus of psychology at Hunter College and long time leader of the Red Onion Jazz Band.
Erminio Costa - An expert in the field of neuropsychopharmacology; fondly remembered by his family, former students, collaborators and peers.
Carrie E. John - A brilliant and talented young scientist and a friend to many.
Elizabeth A. Young - Internationally renowned biological psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry, and Senior Research Professor at the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute (MBNI) at the University of Michigan.
Dennis M. Higgins - Internationally known developmental neurobiologist, respected colleague and cherished mentor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.
John R. Brobeck - Former chairman of the physiology department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; An expert on the body's regulation of food intake who demonstrated early in his career that the hypothalamus regulates body heat and controls food intake.
Leon Cintra - Researched the study of the impact of protein malnutrition on the development of the central nervous system; A founding member of the UNAM Center for Neurobiology; President of SfN's Mexico City chapter.

View the archive for a complete list of submitted member obituaries.

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