Deaths
- January 8 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (b. 1916), physicist.
- February 6 - Max Perutz (b. 1914), biologist.
- February 10 - Harold Furth (b. 1930), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
- March 3 - Roy Porter (b. 1946), medical historian.
- April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
- May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941), paleontologist/evolutionist.
- June 20 - Erwin Chargaff (b. 1905), biochemist.
- June 29 - Ole-Johan Dahl (b. 1931), computer scientist, invented concepts in object-oriented programming.
- July 4 - Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915), mathematician.
- August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930), computer scientist.
- August 31 - George Porter (b. 1920), Nobel laureate in chemistry.
- September 6 - Orvan Hess (b. 1906), obstetrician.
- September 21 - Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932), science fiction author and physicist.
- October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932), cosmonaut.
- November 2 - Charles Sheffield (b. 1935), science fiction author and physicist.
Read more about this topic: 2002 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)
“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)
“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)