Emeritus Professor Roger Blin-Stoyle, the founding science dean of the University, died in Lewes on 30 January at the age of 82.
He came to Sussex in 1962, having been a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he had also received his MA and DPhil degrees.
He was appointed as Professor of Theoretical Physics and Dean of the School of Physical Sciences and, together with a small group of physicists, chemists and mathematicians, built up over a short period a much larger faculty which formed the powerful science base that Sussex became in the 1970s, with a high national and international reputation.
Roger was Pro-Vice Chancellor from 1965-67, Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1970-72, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Science) 1977-79. In 1990, on his retirement, he was awarded an Hon DSc at Sussex.
His many contributions to the national physics community led to his appointment as president of the Institute of Physics 1990-92, and he was chairman of the national School Curriculum Development Committee from 1983-88. His election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976 recognised his original contributions to research in theoretical nuclear physics.
Alumnus Malcolm Bowie, who has died at the age of 63, was an international authority on French literature, including the works of Proust and Lacan. Professor Bowie completed his Sussex DPhil in French literature in 1970.
From 2002 to 2006 he was Professor of French and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he moved to from his previous post as Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford.
Tony Nuttall, who has died at the age of 69, was a member of the English faculty for more than 20 years and served as a pro-vice-chancellor between 1978 and 1981. He came to Sussex in 1962 as an Assistant Lecturer, rising to become Professor of English.
He left Sussex in 1984 to take up a post as Professor of English at New College, Oxford, where he carried out research on Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Marlowe and Milton. Professor Nuttall retired in 2004.