Professor Emeritus John Dugundji died on Dec. 20 due to natural causes at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 95. While Dugundji was renowned for his expertise in aeroelasticity, structural dynamics, and composite materials, those who knew him best also admired his deep knowledge and appreciation of poetry, music, history, and the arts. In true MIT spirit, instead of viewing these intellectual pursuits separately, he instead used each to inform the other — like a poem nestled comfortably on a page alongside research figures in an academic journal or a…
