Deaths Famous Dead Scientists
Naresh Dadhich
Indian theoretical physicist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Manfred Goldberg
German-born British educator and Holocaust survivor · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
James Watson
American molecular biologist (nucleic acid double helix) · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
James Stevens Curl
British architectural historian and author · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Curl
Madiassa Maguiraga
Malian academic and politician · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Spanish developmental biologist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
George C. Christie
American legal scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Christie · Other
Bahram Moshiri
Iranian historian · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Georgy Tolstoy
Russian legal scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
Zaghloul El-Naggar
Egyptian geologist and Islamic scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
Robert Docter Ending corporal punishment in LAUSD; Advocacy of school integration dead at age 97
Robert Docter, an American educator and former member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, died on November 3, 2025, at age 97. He was a professor at California State University, Northridge, and served on the board during a tenure… · 03 November 2025 · November 2025
Donald Huffman Buckminsterfullerene dead at age 89
Donald R. Huffman, an American academic and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Arizona, died on November 2, 2025. Born in 1935, he was known for his work on Buckminsterfullerene. With Wolfgang Krätschmer, Huffman developed a technique in… · 02 November 2025 · November 2025
Allan Ludwig American historian and photographer dead at age 92
Allan Ludwig, an American historian and photographer, died on November 2, 2025, at age 92. Allan Ira Ludwig was an American art historian and photographer whose book Graven Images, an influential study in American Studies, helped spur interest in Puritan-era… · 02 November 2025 · November 2025
Michael Chamberlin (biologist) Gene expression Research dead at age 88
Michael John Chamberlin, an American biochemist and molecular biologist, died on November 1, 2025, at age 88. He was professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Chamberlin’s research focused on gene expression in prokaryotes… · 01 November 2025 · November 2025
Eknath Vasant Chitnis
Indian space scientist · 21 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 21 · Chitnis
Zhou Guozhi
Chinese physical chemist · 20 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 20
Earl C. Haag
American scholar and linguist · 20 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 20 · Haag
Houchang Nahavandi
Iranian politician and academic administrator · 19 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 19
David J. Armor
American social scientist · 17 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 17 · Armor
Yang Chen-Ning
Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics · 17 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 17
Sakineh (Simin) M. Redjali
Iranian-American psychologist and author · 16 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 16 · Redjali
Robert P. Lattimer
American chemist (Lubrizol) · 15 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 15 · Lattimer
Alireza Afshar
Iranian military officer and academic administrator · 15 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 15
Soumana Sacko
Malian politician and economist · 14 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 14
William Twining
British legal scholar · 13 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 13 · Other
Emmanuel Ndindabahizi
Rwandan economist · 12 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 12
Hugues Puel
French economist and priest · 12 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 12 · French
Richard Pew
American psychologist and Olympic fencer (1956) · 11 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 11
Michael Coey
Northern Irish experimental physicist · 09 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 9
Peter Häberle
German legal scholar · 06 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 6 · Other
Dana Drábová
Czech physicist and local politician · 05 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 5 · Czech
Phyllis Gardner
American clinical pharmacologist and professor of medicine (Stanford University) · 03 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 3 · Other
Marcel Cornis-Pope
American literary scholar · 03 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 3 · Other
Robert Cooter
American law professor · 03 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 3 · Other
Marcyliena Morgan
American linguistic anthropologist · 02 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 2 · Other
Claus Offe
German political sociologist · 01 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 1
Deon Fourie
South African army officer and academic · 01 October 2025 · October 2025 · October 1
Ruth Johns
British social historian · 30 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 30
Ira D. Gruber
American military historian · 25 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 25 · Gruber
Fumitaka Sato
Japanese astrophysic and theoretical physicist · 23 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 23 · Satō
Takatoshi Ito
Japanese economist · 23 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 23
William T. Snyder
American academic administrator · 22 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 22 · Snyder
Jonathan Lear
American philosopher and psychoanalyst · 22 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 22
Jerome A. Cohen
American legal scholar · 22 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 22 · Jérôme · Cohen · Other
Avraham Rinat
Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist · 21 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 21 · Dutch
Stanislav Lakoba
Abkhaz historian and politician · 19 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 19
Alma Dawson
American librarian and scholar · 19 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 19 · Other
David H. Clark
New Zealand-born British astrophysicist and science administrator · 18 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 18 · Clark · Other
Mario de Jesús Pérez Jiménez
Spanish computer scientist and academic · 17 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 17 · Jiménez
Dame Joan Metge
New Zeland anthropologist · 17 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 17 · Metge · Other
Yehuda Zvi Blum
Slovak-born Israeli legal scholar · 17 September 2025 · September 2025 · September 17 · Other · Blum