Adams House rising junior Deshaun R. Hill '99 was killed in a car accident July 3 in Monterey County, Calif. He was 20.

Hill was driving with classmate Harvard C. Nabrit Stephens '99 when he lost control of the vehicle, which crossed a divider and rolled over.

The two friends were on their way to Los Angeles for the Fourth of July weekend.

Mary Ann Hill said her son was both "happy-go-lucky" and a "perfectionist." And, she said, he had his priorities straight. "Christ was first in his life. Education was second," she said.

Hill, an electrical engineering sciences concentrator, was involved in the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Black Men's Forum. Dionne A. Fraser '99, then-vice president of the BSA, said Hill was probably "the greatest student who ever went to Harvard."

B. Leonard Holman

Dr. B. Leonard Holman, Cooke professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and a pioneer in nuclear medicine best known for his work on the effects of cocaine addiction, died of cancer Feb. 1 at his home in Newton. He was 56.

Holman was the chair of the radiology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital, having worked there since 1970. He joined the HMS faculty in 1981.

At Brigham and Women's, Holman led the development of single-photon emission computer tomography (SPECT).

While his work focused primarily on SPECT, some of Holman's most ground-breaking research came in 1987 when he used X-ray and CAT-scan imaging to analyze the bodies of several Egyptian mummies.

Ramchandran Jaikumar

Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) Ramchandran Jaikumar suffered a fatal heart attack on Feb. 10, while mountain climbing in Ecuador. He was 53.

Jaikumar's work focused on manufacturing management and technology. He was a pioneer in the study of certain types of manufacturing systems.

"His influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound," said Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Jaikumar's doctoral adviser.

Jaikumar also won accolades for his teaching. "Jai cared greatly about what his students learned and it showed every time he entered the classroom," said Roy D. Shapiro, Phillips professor of manufacturing at HBS. "He set high standards."