Robert F. Baker ’67 PhD

Robert F. Baker ’67 PhD, of Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Feb. 24, 2023, of Covid, followed by pneumonia that led to respiratory failure. Prior to Brown, where he met his wife, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford and a master’s degree from the University of Kansas. He was a professor of molecular biology at USC for more than 46 years. He retired in 2015 as professor emeritus.  In 1975, he took a sabbatical from USC to work at Harvard Medical School for a year as a visiting associate professor. His research specialties were cancer biology, signal transduction and gene regulation, and structural biology. He enjoyed reading the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,  The Economist, Nature, and Science to keep up with the latest developments. He is survived by his wife, Mary Margaret Murphy Baker ’65 ScM; daughter Allison L. Baker ’89; a son; and two brothers.