Deaths
- January 12 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (b. 1903), mathematician.
- February 20 – Solomon Asch (b. 1907), social psychologist.
- March 26 – David Packard (b. 1912), engineer.
- June 17 – Thomas Kuhn (b. 1922), philosopher of science.
- August 1 – Tadeus Reichstein (b. 1897), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- August 9 – Sir Frank Whittle (b. 1907), aeronautical engineer.
- September 20 – Paul Erdős (b. 1913), mathematician.
- November 21 – Abdus Salam (b. 1926), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- December 20 – Carl Sagan (b. 1934), astronomer.
Read more about this topic: 1996 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“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)