Hannah Pick-Goslar, whose close friendship with Anne Frank was memorialized in what became “The Diary of a Young Girl, the record of Anne’s life in hiding from the Nazis, died on Oct. 28 at her home in Jerusalem. She was 93. The two girls’ friendship began when they were in kindergarten in Amsterdam in 1933. Twelve years later, Mrs. Pick-Goslar spoke to her friend for the final time through a barbed-wire fence stuffed with straw [...]

Dr. Samuel L. Katz, a virologist who was part of the research team at Harvard Medical School that developed the measles vaccine, an advance more than half a century ago that has saved countless lives, died on Oct. 31 at his home in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 95. Dr. Katz took up the fight against measles in 1956, when he joined a laboratory at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, now Boston Children’s Hospital. Measles was [...]

Dr. Lewis Kuller, a top epidemiologist and a leading figure in preventive cardiology, died on Oct. 25, in a Pittsburgh hospital. He was 88. In his career of more than 60 years, he studied risk factors for cardiovascular disease through a breadth of clinical trials, much of that time as chairman of the epidemiology department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Dr. Kuller was the chief investigator [...]

Ellen Levine, Good Housekeeping’s first female top editor, whose keen sense of what American women wanted from a magazine also led her to success as Hearst Magazines’ editorial director and Oprah Winfrey’s partner in creating an instant newsstand hit, O, the Oprah Magazine, died on Nov. 6 at her home in Manhattan. She was 76. Ms. Levine massaged Good Housekeeping’s  mix of diet, entertaining and relationship advice, broadening the appeal to working mothers with consumer-oriented [...]

Henry Rosovsky, an economic historian who as a Harvard University dean was instrumental in imposing a back-to-basics core curriculum while establishing groundbreaking undergraduate programs in Black and Jewish studies, died on Nov. 11 at his home in Cambridge, MA. He was 95. What eventually became the Department of Afro-American Studies was considered an underachieving stepchild until 1991, when Professor Rosovsky recruited Henry Louis Gates Jr. from Duke University as its chairman. He was also [...]

Dr. Mitchell S. Rosenthal, the founder of Phoenix House, the largest private nonprofit therapeutic drug-treatment program in the United States, died on Nov. 14 in Manhattan. He was 87. Dr. Rosenthal, a psychiatrist, popularized a regimen of abstinence and group therapy in a communal residential setting where people could recover from drug and alcohol addiction, as well as address other behavioral problems. He started Phoenix House in 1967 in a former flophouse on the Upper [...]

Jay M. Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College who spent more than 50 years traveling the world to observe solar eclipses and, with 74 sightings, probably witnessed more of them than any other human in history, died on Nov. 20 at his home in Williamstown, MA. He was 70. He was more than just an eclipse fan. He studied the corona, the outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere, which, being one-millionth as bright as the [...]