Deaths
- 20 February – F. Albert Cotton (b. 1930), American chemist known for his research on transition metal chemistry.
- 27 March – Paul Lauterbur (b. 1929), American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
- 7 July – Dame Anne McLaren (b. 1927), British developmental biologist.
- 23 July – Ernst Otto Fischer (b. 1918), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
- 26 October – Arthur Kornberg (b. 1918), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of DNA.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)