Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries

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

David H. Waldeck, Chemist, died on November 30, -0001

David H. Waldeck death at age 69

David H. Waldeck, an American chemist, died in Invalid Date. Waldeck was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 5, 1956. He earned a BS degree from the University of Cincinnati…

Jens Blauert dies at age 87

Jens Blauert, a German scientist known for his work in psychoacoustics, died on March 13, 2026. He was an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute…

Paul R. Ehrlich dead at age 93

Paul R. Ehrlich, an American biologist, author, and environmentalist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 93. He was known for his warnings about the consequences of population…

Jacques Revel death at age 83

Jacques Revel, a French historian and emeritus director of studies and president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), died on March 13, 2026, at the age…

Robert Trivers died at age 83

Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, died on March 12, 2026, at age 83. He was known for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex…

Patricia Clarke, died aged 99

Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in…

Hermann Kulke, Indologist, died on March 10, 2026

Hermann Kulke died at age 87

Hermann Kulke, a German historian and Indologist, died on March 10, 2026. He was 87. Kulke was professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Kiel University from 1988 to…

Susan Haack death at age 80

Susan Haack, a British philosopher and academic, died on March 10, 2026. She was a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy,…

Heorhij Halenčanka dies at 90

Heorhij Halenčanka, a Belarusian historian, died on March 9, 2026. He was 89. Born in Petrozavodsk on February 28, 1937, he spent most of his childhood in Minsk. Halenčanka graduated…

Anthony Leggett, Leggett–Garg inequality, Leggett inequality, Superfluid phase of helium-3, died on March 8, 2026

Anthony Leggett died at age 87

Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as…

Mahendra Pal dies at 85

Mahendra Pal Singh, an Indian legal scholar and jurist, died on March 7, 2026. He was a scholar of constitutional law, administrative law and comparative law, and professor emeritus at…

Narayan Bareth died at age 68

Narayan Bareth, an Indian journalist, died on March 6, 2026. He was 68. Bareth worked in journalism for around three decades and served as State Information Commissioner of Rajasthan. He…

Death of James Garbarino at age 78

James Garbarino, an American academic and psychologist, died on March 6, 2026. He was a professor at Loyola University Chicago and specialized in studying the causes of violence in children,…

Tierney Thys dies at 59

Tierney Thys, an American marine biologist and science educator, died on March 6, 2026, at age 59. A National Geographic explorer, she earned a biology degree from Brown University in…

Joan Leitzel has died at age 89

Joan Leitzel, an American mathematician and university administrator, died on March 5, 2026, at age 89. She served as interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for six months before…

Death of Lubomír Šik at age 98

Lubomír Šik, a Czech regional historian, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Litovel on February 2, 1928, he graduated from the industrial school in Šumperk in 1949 after World…

Eli Shamir dies at 91

Eli Shamir, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 91. He was the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science…

Daniel Migliore death at age 90

Daniel Migliore, an American theologian and author who was professor emeritus of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on March 4, 2026. Born in 1935, he earned a Bachelor of…

Death of Philip Low at age 78

Philip Low, an American chemist and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, died March 4, 2026, at age 78. A prolific researcher, he contributed to…

Alfredo Bengzon died at age 90

Alfredo Bengzon, a Filipino physician, educator and public official, died on March 3, 2026. Also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, he served as vice-president for the Professional Schools of…

Andrea Weiss dead at age 60

Andrea Weiss, an American rabbi and author, died on March 3, 2026. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1993 and later served there as associate professor of Bible,…

Klaus Müller dead at age 81

Klaus Müller, a German Marxian economist and academic, died on March 2, 2026. Born on August 10, 1944, in Ursprung, now part of Lugau in Saxony, he studied financial and…

Ivan Hall passes away at age 93

Ivan Hall, the British architectural historian, died on March 2, 2026, aged 93. Hall specialised in the architecture of John Carr and had lifelong interests in neoclassical architecture, the conservation…

Patricia Schady dies at 47

Patricia Schady, a British astrophysicist, died on February 28, 2026. She specialized in gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies and was a senior lecturer at the University of Bath at…

David Botstein dead at age 83

David Botstein, an American biologist, died on February 27, 2026. He was director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013 and held the…

Malcolm Budd, died aged 84

Malcolm Budd, an English philosopher, died on February 26, 2026. Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001. He…

Ardis E. Parshall dead at age 66

Ardis E. Parshall, an American historian and independent researcher of Latter-day Saint history, died on February 26, 2026. She published her research on the blog Keepapitchinin and worked for The…

T. K. Oommen, died aged 88

T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist, died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…

Bevan Morris dead at age 76

Bevan Morris, an Australian-born American academic and politician who served as president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, for 36 years and was a founder of the Natural…

Carol Walker has died at age 90

Carol Walker, an American mathematician and mathematics textbook author, died on February 25, 2026. Born Carol Lee Walker on August 19, 1935, in Martinez, California, she studied music education at…