Obituaries

After he was mugged, he took a therapist’s advice to work with “difficult students at a difficult school.” They ignored him

He was impatient with courtroom theatrics, and the Manhattan trials of the commissioner and ex-beauty queen Bess Myerson and the former

He was a producer and club D.J. who helped rappers find their voices and fortunes, and who later became known as

She was best known as half of a comedy team with her husband, Phil Ford, until her hall-filling voice earned her

She was celebrated for both her playing and her love of the jazz community. “My life in music,” she said recently,

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

He shared the 1972 physics prize for showing how some materials could convey electricity without resistance. He also did pioneering research

She came up with a method of automation so that workers would not have to make the bags by hand. Then

Despite the gender restrictions of Saudi society, she claimed a place for herself, and other women, in the country’s art scene.

His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised