Deaths
- February 3 – Ernst Mayr (b. 1904), evolutionary biologist.
- February 6 – Hubert Curien (b. 1924), former President of CERN and first chairman of ESA.
- February 10 – D. Allan Bromley (b. 1926), director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.
- March 6 – Hans Bethe (b. 1906), Nobelaureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars.
- June 20 – Jack Kilby (b. 1923), Nobelaureate in Physics (2000) for his work on integrated circuits.
- June 20 – Charles David Keeling (b. 1928), first to make frequent measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, plotted on the Keeling Curve.
- August 21 – Robert Moog (b. 1934), pioneer of electronic music.
- August 31 – Sir Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), physicist.
- October 28 – Richard Smalley (b. 1943), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.
- November 16 – Henry Taube (b. 1915), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1983) for his work in the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
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“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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