Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Shirley Tonkin
New Zealand paediatrician and sudden infant death syndrome researcher
Died on Wednesday January 27th 2016
Paul Terasaki
American scientist and philanthropist
Died on Monday January 25th 2016
Constantijn Kortmann
Dutch legal scholar
Died on Sunday January 24th 2016
Dmitry Shirkov
Russian theoretical physicist
Died on Saturday January 23rd 2016
Arlon Tussing
American economist
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
Michael Sheringham
English literary academic
Died on Thursday January 21st 2016
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist
Died on Sunday January 24th 2016
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence
Died on Sunday January 24th 2016
Peter Atteslander
Swiss sociologist
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
Edward Yourdon
American computer scientist
Died on Wednesday January 20th 2016
David Finkelstein dead at age 86
David Finkelstein, the American physicist known for Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates,
died on January 24, 2016, aged 86. Born in New York City, he earned his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts…
Eugene Borowitz
American rabbi and philosopher
Died on Friday January 22nd 2016
Robin Fletcher
British academic administrator and Olympic field hockey player
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
Forrest_McDonald
American Historian and Constitutional Scholar
Died on Tuesday January 19th 2016
Lloyd Rudolph
American political scientist
Died on Saturday January 16th 2016
Robert M. Carter
British-born Australian marine geologist and climate skeptic
Died on Tuesday January 19th 2016
John J. Pruis
American educator
Died on Monday January 18th 2016
Witold Mańczak
Polish linguist
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Rudolf Haag
German theoretical physicist
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Oleksandr Shevchenko
Ukrainian scientist
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
William Craig
American philosopher
Died on Wednesday January 13th 2016
John McDade Howell
American academic and university chancellor (East Carolina University)
Died on Sunday January 3rd 2016
Ellen Meiksins Wood
American historian
Died on Thursday January 14th 2016
Anthony Mellows
British barrister and academic
Died on Sunday January 10th 2016
Antonio Aloni
Italian scholar
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
John Coleman Moore
American mathematician
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Peter Gavin Hall
Australian statistician
Died on Saturday January 9th 2016
János Radványi
Hungarian-born American political scientist and diplomat
Died on Monday January 11th 2016
Leonard Berkowitz
American social psychologist
Died on Sunday January 3rd 2016
Georg Nees
German academic and artist
Died on Sunday January 3rd 2016
Berge Furre
Norwegian politician and historian
Died on Monday January 11th 2016
Danylo Kulynyak
Ukrainian poet and historian
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Abbas Bahri
Tunisian mathematician
Died on Sunday January 10th 2016
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
Latvian computer scientist and mathematician
Died on Monday January 4th 2016
Danilo Kulinyak
Ukrainian poet and historian
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Gianni Rondolino
Italian film critic and historian
Died on Saturday January 9th 2016
János György Szilágyi
Hungarian historian
Died on Thursday January 7th 2016
Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov
Russian computer scientist
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Bulcsú László
Croatian linguist
Died on Monday January 4th 2016
Helmut Koester
German-born American history professor
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Mahabub Hossain
Bangladeshi development economist
Died on Monday January 4th 2016
Jacques Deny
French mathematician
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Homa Nategh
Iranian educator and historian
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Sabino Acquaviva
Italian sociologist
Died on Wednesday December 30th 2015
Edward Hugh
British economist
Died on Tuesday December 29th 2015
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
German-born American political scientist
Died on Wednesday December 23rd 2015
Abish Kekilbayev
Kazakh politician and academic
Died on Friday December 11th 2015
Sidney Mintz
American anthropologist
Died on Saturday December 26th 2015
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Venezuelan philosopher
Died on Monday December 21st 2015
Gregory Baker Wolfe
American diplomat and academic
Died on Saturday December 12th 2015
Heinz-Otto Kreiss
German-born Swedish mathematician
Died on Wednesday December 16th 2015
Jean-Marie Pelt
French biologist
Died on Wednesday December 23rd 2015
Norman Breslow
American statistician and medical researcher
Died on Wednesday December 9th 2015
Michael Wyschogrod
German-born American Jewish theologian
Died on Thursday December 17th 2015
Jean-François Malherbe
Belgian philosopher
Died on Sunday December 13th 2015
John Cockerton
British Anglican priest and academic
Died on Wednesday December 9th 2015
Harry Zvi Tabor
British-born Israeli physicist
Died on Tuesday December 15th 2015
Bob Krause
American educator (Kansas State University)
Died on Wednesday December 16th 2015
Henry Hall
British physicist
Died on Friday December 4th 2015
I. Howard Marshall
Scottish theologian
Died on Saturday December 12th 2015
Benedict Anderson
American academic
Died on Sunday December 13th 2015
Wolfgang Sandner
German physicist
Died on Saturday December 5th 2015
Hyron Spinrad
American astronomer
Died on Monday December 7th 2015
Gerhard Lenski
American sociologist
Died on Monday December 7th 2015
Nils Nygaard
Norwegian professor of law
Died on Tuesday November 3rd 2015
Rob Blokzijl
Dutch physicist and computer scientist
Died on Tuesday December 1st 2015
John Rassias
American language professor
Died on Wednesday December 2nd 2015
Robert E. Glennen
American academic
Died on Tuesday December 1st 2015
Pierre Gabriel
French mathematician (Gabriel's theorem)
Died on Tuesday November 24th 2015
David Simmons
New Zealand ethnologist and historian
Died on Monday November 30th 2015
Marcus Klingberg
Polish-born Israeli scientist and spy for the Soviet Union
Died on Monday November 30th 2015
David Steinmetz
American historian
Died on Thursday November 26th 2015
Steven Vogel
American biologist
Died on Tuesday November 24th 2015
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccon feminist writer and sociologist
Died on Monday November 30th 2015
Jerzy Browkin
Polish mathematician
Died on Monday November 23rd 2015
Esperanza Guisán
Spanish philosopher
Died on Friday November 27th 2015
Jorgo Bulo
Albanian philologist and historian
Died on Thursday November 26th 2015
Miroslav Fiedler
Czech mathematician
Died on Friday November 20th 2015
John Forrester
British historian and philosopher of science
Died on Tuesday November 24th 2015
Heinz Oberhummer
Austrian physicist
Died on Monday November 23rd 2015
Rudolf von Thadden
German historian
Died on Wednesday November 18th 2015
Olaf H. Olsen
Danish historian and archaeologist
Died on Tuesday November 17th 2015
Douglass North
American economist and Nobel Prize recipient
Died on Monday November 23rd 2015
Herbert Scarf
American mathematician
Died on Sunday November 15th 2015
Ricardo de la Cierva
Spanish historian and politician
Died on Thursday November 19th 2015
Glenn Goerke
American academic
Died on Friday November 13th 2015
Lindela Ndlovu
Zimbabwean educator
Died on Wednesday November 18th 2015
Louise Cowan
American educator
Died on Monday November 16th 2015
Ellsworth Kalas
American Methodist theologian
Died on Thursday November 12th 2015
Paul Stewart
American historian
Died on Friday November 13th 2015
A. Veluppillai
Sri Lankan Tamil academic and author
Died on Sunday November 1st 2015
Donald Shell
American computer scientist (Shellsort)
Died on Monday November 2nd 2015
Remko Scha
Dutch computer scientist and musician
Died on Monday November 9th 2015