University of Illinois Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Roy Doi
Roy H. Doi, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2006), passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, at the age of 84, on October 9, 2017. He had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer earlier this year. Roy was born in Sacramento, California, on March 26, 1933, and grew up in Loomis, California. His parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900's and worked as migrant...
