Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries

Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.

Martin Bruns died at age 65

Martin Bruns, a Swiss baritone and music lecturer, died on January 30, 2026. Born in Weil am Rhein on November 25, 1960, he was a member of the Knabenkantorei Basel…

Eric Cameron dies at 90

Eric Cameron, a Canadian artist known for his conceptual art work, died on January 29, 2026. He lived in Calgary, Alberta, and was also a writer and educator. Born in…

Josef Dvorak dies at age 91

Josef Dvorak, an Austrian therapist, Catholic theologian and author, died on January 28, 2026. Born in Vienna on January 28, 1934, he was also a scholar of Karl Rahner and…

Reinhardt Kiehl died at age 90

Reinhardt Kiehl, a German mathematician, died on January 26, 2026. Born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, on May 31, 1935, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy from 1955 at the University…

Anne Agur, died aged 72

Anne Agur, a Canadian clinical anatomist and professor at the University of Toronto, died on January 26, 2026. She taught for many years in the Department of Anatomy within the…

Annette Dolphin, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London, died on January 26, 2026, aged 74–75. Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, in 1951, she studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973, and later received a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London in 1977 for research on noradrenaline receptors. Dolphin was a leader in the field of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels, with influential work on the regulation of calcium channel trafficking and function, including their modulation by G-protein coupled receptors and by auxiliary calcium channel subunits, died on January 26, 2026

Annette Dolphin passed away at age 74

Annette Dolphin, a British scientist and professor of pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London, died on January 26, 2026, aged 74–75. Born in…

Li Wei dies at 82

Li Wei, a Chinese computer scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on January 25, 2026. Born in Peking on June 8, 1943, he graduated from the…

Kikuo Arakawa passed away at age 96

Kikuo Arakawa, a Japanese medical scientist and internist, died on January 23, 2026. He specialized in hypertension and cardiovascular medicine and was a Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University. Arakawa also…

Deborah Cameron dead at age 67

Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…

Vicki L. Hanson, Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility, died on January 20, 2026

Vicki L. Hanson died at age -1

Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist, died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…

James Petras, Professor of sociology, died on January 17, 2026

James Petras has died at age 89

James Petras, an American sociologist and academic, died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct…