Deaths
- January 16 - Robert J. Van de Graaff (born 1901), American physicist.
- January 19 - Casimir Funk (born 1884), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin.
- January 27 - Apollo 1 crew
- Edward White (born 1930)
- Gus Grissom (born 1926)
- Roger Chaffee (born 1935)
- February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer (born 1904), American physicist.
- March 27 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (born 1890), Czech chemist.
- April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller (born 1890), American geneticist.
- April 24 - Vladimir Komarov (born 1927), cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.
- May 5 - Owen Thomas Jones (born 1878), Welsh geologist
Read more about this topic: 1967 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)