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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“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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.”
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