Professor Zoltan Balogh of Miami University of Ohio died unexpectedly Wednesday morning, June 19, 2002. Zoli was scheduled to present an invited paper at the Matsue Topology Conference on June 26, 2002. The participants of the conference, most of whom knew Zoli personally, sent their deepest condolences to his family.

Some famous problems he solved in ZFC include the small Dowker space problem (there exists such of cardinality of the continuum), Nagami's problem (normal + screenable does not imply paracompact), and the second and third of Morita's conjectures about normality in products (for these it was known to suffice to prove that for each uncountable cardinal k, there is a space X whose product with every metric space is normal, and such that X has an increasing open cover in order type that of the first uncountable ordinal, but has no refinement by at most k-many closed sets). Zoli was a leader in the use of elementary submodels in topology, which he used in the solution of these and other problems.

Zoli is survived by his wife Agnes; two sons Adam and Daniel, of Oxford; daughter Agnes, currently in Oxford, and daughter Judit, of Debrecen, Hungary; his mother Balogh Tiborne, of Debrecen, and sister Agnes, of Debrecen. Zoli's ashes were taken to Debrecen, Hungary and buried next to his father's grave.

A remembrance dinner was held in Oxford on the evening of June 29, 2002. Tentative plans are being made to host a conference in memory of Zoli next fall.