Barbara Gray, 89; Architectural Researcher

Barbara Gray, 89, architectural researcher behind designs of major Southern California campuses and museums. Born in India, raised in England and educated in modern languages at Oxford University, Gray worked as a teacher, writer, editor, motion picture technical advisor, reader of plays and translator. She was engaged by the architecture firm William Pereira & Associates as vice president and director of research. For more than 30 years, she was Pereira’s key associate, studying concepts before he produced his designs for UC Irvine and UC San Diego and the master plan for continuing development of USC. She produced a summary of research titled “What Is a Museum?” to prepare Pereira for designing the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard. In 1961, Gray was named a Times Woman of the Year, cited as “a guiding force behind master plans that are changing the face and geography of the Southland.” In 1986, she was elected an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. On Nov. 3 in Silver Spring, Md.

J. Brian Mudd, 69; Botanist, Air Pollution Expert

J. Brian Mudd, 69, botanist and expert in air pollution research. A leading researcher in plant lipid biochemistry, including movement of pollutants into plant cells, Mudd retired in 1993 as head of the University of California’s Air Pollution Research Center on the Riverside campus. Born in Darlington, England, Mudd earned degrees at Cambridge in England, the University of Alberta in Canada and the University of Wisconsin. He joined the UC Riverside faculty in 1961, teaching biochemistry and doing research in the newly formed Air Pollution Research Center. Mudd left the university during the 1980s to work as group leader at the Arco Plant Cell Research Institute and as vice president of the Plant Cell Research Institute in Dublin, Calif. In his retirement years, Mudd had continued his research into reactions of ozone with components of plant cell membranes. On Wednesday in Riverside of kidney disease.

Sydney Julian Rosenberg; Philanthropist, Arts Patron

Sydney Julian Rosenberg, 84, philanthropist and arts patron who formerly headed his family’s ABM Industries Inc. A native of San Francisco, Rosenberg played football for Stanford, where he and his brother, Theodore, later endowed the Sydney and Theodore Rosenberg Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame. He attended Harvard Business School before joining ABM in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. In his career at the firm founded by his father in 1909, he served as chairman, president and chief executive officer and at his retirement became chairman emeritus. Known for his philanthropy to children’s support organizations, including Childhelp USA, Rosenberg was especially active in the Jewish Big Brothers Assn. of Los Angeles. He served as president, trustee and chairman of its Camp Max Straus Foundation and in 1993 became the organization’s first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Rosenberg was a life trustee of Claremont McKenna College, advisor to the UCLA Center on Aging, board member of the Japan America Society, a governor of the Los Angeles County Music Center and major supporter of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He was also a partner in the San Francisco Giants baseball team. On Nov. 1 in Newport Beach in an automobile accident.