2004 in Science - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 6 - Humphry Osmond (b. 1917), English-born psychiatrist.
  • March 15
    • William Pickering (b. 1910), former head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
    • Sir John Pople (b. 1925), British Nobel prize winning chemist.
  • April 19 - John Maynard Smith (b. 1920), evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
  • July 3 - Andrian Nikolayev (b. 1929), cosmonaut.
  • July 28 - Francis Crick (b. 1916), American Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA.
  • August 12 - John Clark (b. 1951), head of the Roslin Institute and part of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep.
  • August 15 - Sune K. Bergström (b. 1916), Swedish biochemist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
  • August 31 - Fred Whipple (b. 1906), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets.
  • October 5 - Maurice Wilkins (b. 1916), Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.
  • October 19 - Lewis Urry (b. 1927), inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery.
  • November 18 - Robert Bacher (b. 1905), nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, Professor and Provost of the California Institute of Technology.
  • December 26 - Frank Pantridge (b. 1916), cardiologist.
  • December 29 - Julius Axelrod, (b. 1912), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology for work with catecholamine neurotransmitters.

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