Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Walter Burkert
German academic and author (Homo Necans)
Died on Wednesday March 11th 2015
Thomas Hopko
American Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian
Died on Wednesday March 18th 2015
Jiří Matoušek
Czech mathematician
Died on Monday March 9th 2015
Anatoly Logunov
Russian theoretical physicist and academician (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Died on Sunday March 1st 2015
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Dutch astronomer
Died on Monday March 30th 2015
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
Died on Wednesday March 18th 2015
Joshua Fishman
American linguist
Died on Sunday March 1st 2015
Guido Zappa
Italian mathematician
Died on Tuesday March 17th 2015
John Clegg
Australian archaeologist
Died on Sunday March 1st 2015
Raymond D. Fowler
American psychologist
Died on Tuesday March 17th 2015
Bengt Hägglund
Swedish theologian
Died on Sunday March 8th 2015
Joseph Cassidy
Canadian-born British Anglican priest and academic
Died on Saturday March 28th 2015
Janet Taylor Spence
American psychologist
Died on Monday March 16th 2015
Jean Hardisty
American political scientist
Died on Monday March 16th 2015
Ray Hefferlin
American physicist
Died on Saturday March 7th 2015
Janet L. Norwood
American statistician
Died on Friday March 27th 2015
William B. Ewald, Jr.
American speechwriter (Dwight Eisenhower) and historian
Died on Monday March 16th 2015
Edward L. Keenan
American historian
Died on Friday March 6th 2015
William W. Hallo
German-born American professor of assyriology and Babylonian literature
Died on Friday March 27th 2015
Stuart Croft
British filmmaker and educator
Died on Saturday March 14th 2015
Katherine Godwin
American teacher and educator
Died on Thursday March 5th 2015
L. S. Cousins
British scholar in Buddhist studies
Died on Saturday March 14th 2015
Jack Swanstrom
American educator and film director
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2015
Günter Asser
German mathematician
Died on Monday March 23rd 2015
Martin Petzoldt
German theologian
Died on Friday March 13th 2015
John Simopoulos
British philosopher
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2015
George Connell
Canadian academic and biochemist
Died on Friday March 13th 2015
Dušan Bilandžić
Croatian historian and politician
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2015
John Walter Guerrier Lund
English psychologist
Died on Saturday March 21st 2015
Alice Teichova
Austrian-born British economic historian
Died on Thursday March 12th 2015
Petr Vopěnka
Czech mathematician and politician
Died on Friday March 20th 2015
Gerald Hurst
American chemist and fire investigator
Died on Wednesday March 11th 2015
Ernest Braun
Austrian-born British academic and author
Died on Tuesday March 3rd 2015
Paul Hudak
American professor of computer science
Died on Wednesday April 29th 2015
Páll Skúlason
Icelandic philosopher
Died on Tuesday April 21st 2015
Abraham Rotstein
Canadian economist
Died on Monday April 27th 2015
Brice Bosnich
Australian chemist
Died on Tuesday April 14th 2015
Michael J. D. Powell
British mathematician
Died on Monday April 20th 2015
Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez
Mexican academic and politician
Died on Friday April 24th 2015
Warren Weinstein
American economist
Died on Friday April 24th 2015
Michael Theunissen
German philosopher
Died on Sunday April 19th 2015
John Howard
American optical physicist
Died on Thursday April 16th 2015
Abraham Eraly
Indian historian and magazine editor
Died on Thursday April 9th 2015
Mariano Gago
Portuguese physicist and politician
Died on Saturday April 18th 2015
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
American author and historian
Died on Tuesday April 14th 2015
Rayson Huang
Hong Kong chemist
Died on Thursday April 9th 2015
Tekena Tamuno
Nigerian history professor
Died on Sunday April 12th 2015
Walter H. Haas
American astronomer
Died on Tuesday April 7th 2015
Donald N. Levine
American sociologist
Died on Sunday April 5th 2015
Margaret Rule
British archaeologist
Died on Saturday April 11th 2015
David L. Kaplan
Canadian professor and conductor
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2015
Stanley Kutler
American historian
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2015
Jenifer Haselgrove dead at age 84
Jenifer Haselgrove, the British physicist and computer scientist known for her work on ray tracing in cold magneto-plasmas,
died on March 13, 2015, aged 84. Born Jenifer Leech, she was…
Vera Gornostayeva dead at age 85
Vera Gornostayeva, the Russian pianist and piano teacher,
died on January 19, 2015. Born in Moscow on October 1, 1929, she studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where Heinrich Neuhaus was…
Ulrich Beck dead at age 70
Ulrich Beck, the German sociologist who helped shape the study of risk in modern society,
died on January 1, 2015, aged 70. Born in Słupsk in 1944, he became one…