Deaths
- February 3 – Ernst Mayr (b. 1904), evolutionary biologist.
- February 6 – Hubert Curien (b. 1924), former President of CERN and first chairman of ESA.
- February 10 – D. Allan Bromley (b. 1926), director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.
- March 6 – Hans Bethe (b. 1906), Nobelaureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars.
- June 20 – Jack Kilby (b. 1923), Nobelaureate in Physics (2000) for his work on integrated circuits.
- June 20 – Charles David Keeling (b. 1928), first to make frequent measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, plotted on the Keeling Curve.
- August 21 – Robert Moog (b. 1934), pioneer of electronic music.
- August 31 – Sir Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), physicist.
- October 28 – Richard Smalley (b. 1943), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.
- November 16 – Henry Taube (b. 1915), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1983) for his work in the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)