Carl S. Herz, Redpath Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, died on May 1, 1995 at the age of 65. His general area of research was harmonic analysis in a wide sense. His paper "Bessel functions of matrix argument", Annals of Math. 61 (1955), 474-523 was a pioneering paper in the field of special functions in several variables associated with Lie groups and with root systems.

See also the obituary Carl Herz 1930-1995 in Notices AMS, July 1996, which is partly reproduced from Canadian Math. Soc. Notes, December 1995.