Ivan Hirsch
Czech professor · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19 · Czech · Other · Iván
Deaths Famous Dead Scientists
Ronald Chase American artist, photographer and film director dead at age 91
an American artist, photographer and film director, died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Seminole, Oklahoma, on December 29, 1934, he studied dance, design and directing at Bard College, where he joined the Jean Erdman… · 20 December 2025 · December 2025
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19
Cynthia Mailman American painter, pancreatic cancer dead at age 82
an American painter and educator, died on December 19, 2025, in New York City at age 82. She was known for figurative and landscape works done in a "cool, pared-down" style. Her early paintings were presented from inside her VW… · 19 December 2025 · December 2025
Robert Goodman (psychiatrist) Psychiatrist dead at age 72
a British child psychiatrist, died on December 18, 2025, aged 72. He was Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College London. Goodman specialised in hemiplegia… · 18 December 2025 · December 2025
Elof Axel Carlson American geneticist dead at age 94
an American geneticist and historian of science, died on December 17, 2025, at age 94. He was a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in New York City in 1931, Carlson… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Nuno F. Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Loureiro
Jozef Gruska
Slovak computer scientist and academic · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Józef
Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · Naqshbandi · Other
Stephen Pearton
Australian-American materials scientist · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13
Ivan R. Schwab American ophthalmologist, heart failure dead at age 77
an American ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, died on December 13, 2025. He completed his undergraduate degree at West Virginia University and received his M.D. from the West Virginia University School… · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · Heart Failure · Iván
Charles Weissmann
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11 · Swiss
Keith Suter
Australian social scientist · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Kenneth W. Ford
American theoretical physicist and writer · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10 · Ford
Rosa Leal de Pérez
Guatemalan psychologist · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Other · Pérez
Stan Shillington Canadian lacrosse historian and sportswriter dead at age 90
a Canadian lacrosse historian, sportswriter and statistician, died on December 8, 2025, at age 90. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 21, 1935, he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a builder in 1977. Shillington… · 08 December 2025 · December 2025
Dwight Morrell Smith
American chancellor and professor · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5 · Other · Smith
Bernard Charlot
French academic and educational scientist · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4 · French
Jürgen Raps German pilot and aviation manager dead at age 74
a German pilot and aviation manager, died on December 5, 2025. He served as chief operating officer (operations) at Lufthansa Passenger Airlines (Lufthansa Passage), and was described in obituaries as a member of the Lufthansa Passage executive board, the accountable… · 05 December 2025 · December 2025
Charles Mullins (physician executive) American physician dead at age 91
an American physician and physician executive, died on December 4, 2025. He was the Ashbel Smith Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a cardiologist. Mullins served as director of clinical cardiology and the cardiac catheterization… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
Michael Boulter British paleontologist dead at age 83
a British paleontologist and professor of paleobiology at the Natural History Museum and the University of East London, died on December 4, 2025. Born Michael Charles Boulter on November 22, 1942, he studied botany, geology, and chemistry at University College… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
Thomas Michel, S.J.
American Jesuit priest and leading scholar of Muslim–Christian relations; former head of the Vatican's Office for Relations with Muslims (1981–1994) · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other · S.J.
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other
Murray Heimberg
American medical scientist · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Doctors
Marsha Kinder
American film scholar · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Other
Ueli Aebi
Swiss structural biologist · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1 · Swiss
Pamela Kola
Kenyan children’s author and educator · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1
Alice S. Whittemore American epidemiologist and biostatistician dead at age 89
an American epidemiologist and biostatistician, died on December 2, 2025. She studied the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer after an earlier career as a pure mathematician focused on group theory. Whittemore was a professor of health research and… · 02 December 2025 · December 2025
Robert H. Edwards
American academic administrator · 30 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 30 · Edwards
Moshe Yegar
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Argentine
Gondoo U Thein Naing
Burmese writer and educator · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Naing
William Jenkins
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academic · 28 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 28
Lorenz Weinrich
German historian and university professor · 27 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 27
Guy Cogeval
French art historian · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · French
W. Michael Blumenthal
Political adviser and economist · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · Blumenthal
Dahiru Usman Bauchi
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholar · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · Bauchi · Other
Lee Tien-Ming
Hong Kong philosopher · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26
Teodor Gotszalk
Polish scientist and academic (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) · 23 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 23
Lê Dũng Tráng
Vietnamese-born French mathematician · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · French · Tráng
Oleksandr Motsia
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · Other
Motsia Oleksandr Petrovych
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist. Member of NASU Institute of Archaeology · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · Petrovych · Other
Anneli Aejmelaeus
Finnish biblical scholar · 19 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 19 · Other
Philippe Morat
French botanist and academic (National Museum of Natural History · 19 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 19 · French
Josep Rius-Camps
Spanish biblical scholar · 18 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 18 · Other
Wiesław Żelazko
Polish mathematician and academic (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences) · 17 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 17
Barbara R. Hatton
American academic administrator · 15 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 15 · Hatton
Kevin Mackin
American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator · 15 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 15