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Janice Voss, 55 (1956 - 2012)
The Associated PressHOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55.The agency said in a statement Tuesday that Voss died overnight after a battle with cancer.A native of South Bend, Ind., Voss started with NASA while attending Purdue University in 1973. She later worked as an...
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Roger Boisjoly, 73 (1938 - 2012)
The Associated Press NEPHI, Utah (AP) — Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in Nephi, about 40 miles south of Provo, his wife Roberta Boisjoly said. The 1986 Challenger tragedy shocked the nation. Seven astronauts, including a schoolteacher, were...
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Lowell Randall, 96 (2012)
RUSSELL CONTRERAS, The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Lowell Randall, a pioneer rocket scientist who helped launched the U.S. space program and tested intercontinental ballistic missiles, has died. He was 96. He died Tuesday of natural causes at the Good Samaritan Las Cruces Village, a nursing home, according to a funeral home in Las Cruces. Randall was part of a team lead...
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Boris Chertok, 99 (1912 - 2011)
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, The Associated PressMOSCOW (AP) — Boris Chertok, a Russian rocket designer who played a key role in engineering Soviet-era space programs, has died. He was 99.The state-controlled RKK Energiya rocket builder where he worked as a top consultant said Chertok died in Moscow on Wednesday after contracting pneumonia.For many years, Chertok served as a deputy to the father of the...
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Lynn Margulis, 73 (1938 - 2011)
The Associated PressAMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Evolutionary biologist, author and National Medal of Science winner Lynn Margulis (MAR'-guh-liss) has died.The University of Massachusetts, where she was a professor of geosciences, says Margulis died at her home on Tuesday. She was 73.Margulis was once married to astronomer Carl Sagan. But she was best known for her theory of symbiogenesis. That theory...
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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22 (1989 - 2011)
BROOKE DONALD, The Associated PressPALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a co-founder of the startup social networking site Diaspora that put an emphasis on privacy and user-control, has died...
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Norman Ramsey, 96 (1915 - 2011)
MARK PRATT, The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock...
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John McCarthy, 84 (1927 - 2011)
The Associated Press PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died....
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Dr. Herbert Hauptman, 94 (1917 - 2011)
CAROLYN THOMPSON, The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Dr. Herbert Hauptman, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1985 for his work uncovering the structure of molecules, has died. He...
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Edgar Villchur, 94 (1917 - 2011)
The Associated Press WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Edgar Villchur, who went from repairing radios in his New York City shop to inventing ground-breaking audio equipment and hearing aids, has died, his...
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Lawrence Carter, 68 (1936 - 2011)
The Associated PressEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — University of Oregon sociology professor Lawrence Carter, who helped develop a model for forecasting mortality rates, died Sunday in Eugene at the age of 68...
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Dennis Ritchie, 70 (1941 - 2011)
The Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.Ritchie created the popular C programming language...
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Lee Davenport, 95 (1915 - 2011)
STEPHEN SINGER, The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Lee Davenport, a physicist who developed a radar device that helped U.S. and allied troops win key battles in World War II, has died....
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Robert Ettinger, 92 (1918 - 2011)
JOHN FLESHER, The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Robert Ettinger, pioneer of the cryonics movement that advocates freezing the dead in the hope that medical technology will enable...
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Bill Haast, 100 (1910 - 2011)
The Associated PressMIAMI (AP) — A snake expert known as a pioneer in extracting venom for research has died in Florida.Nancy Haast says her husband, Bill, died Wednesday evening at the age of 100...
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Maria Motta (2011)
COLLEEN BARRY, The Associated PressMILAN (AP) — During 4½ months in orbit, astronaut Paolo Nespoli was able to keep in touch with his ailing mother in Italy from the International Space Station...
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Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, 91 (1919 - 2011)
PAT EATON-ROBB, The Associated PressHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades' worth of soap opera actors,...
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr., 91 (1919 - 2011)
RODRIQUE NGOWI, The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., a Harvard University professor who won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of...
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Paul Baran, 84 (1926 - 2011)
ANDREW DALTON, The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Baran, whose work with packaging data in the 1960s has been credited with playing a role in the later development of the Internet, has...
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John Lounge, 64 (1946 - 2011)
The Associated PressHOUSTON (AP) — Three-time space shuttle crew member John Lounge, who was part of the first shuttle mission after the 1986 shuttle Challenger disaster, has died at age 64.NASA...
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Mikhail Simonov (2011)
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, The Associated PressMOSCOW (AP) — Aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov, whose supremely maneuverable, heavily armed and far-flying Sukhoi fighter jet became an icon of the Soviet...
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Christian J. Lambertsen, 93 (1917 - 2011)
The Associated Press NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Christian J. Lambertsen, a scientist and doctor who invented an underwater breathing system used by the military in World War II and later coined...
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Charles Huron Kaman, 91 (1919 - 2011)
The Associated Press BLOOMFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Charles Huron Kaman (keh-MAN'), an aviation pioneer who founded Kaman Aerospace Corp., has died. He was 91. The Bloomfield, Conn., company said...
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John "Jack" Oliver (2011)
The Associated Press ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A Cornell University professor and geophysicist who specialized on plate tectonics and using seismic waves to explore the Earth's crust has died. John ...
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Zdzislaw Starostecki (2010)
The Associated PressSARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — One of the head designers of the Patriot missile has died in Florida. He was 91.The son of Zdzislaw Starostecki (z-GEE'-slav Star-o-STE'-key) said his...
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Walter Haeusserman, 96 (1914 - 2010)
The Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A member of the team of former Nazi German rocket scientists who helped America send a man to the moon, Walter Haeusserman, has died in Alabama. He was...
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Samuel T. Cohen, 89 (1921 - 2010)
The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen, who designed the tactical nuclear weapon intended to kill people but do minimal damage to structures, has died, his son...
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Britton Chance, 97 (1913 - 2010)
The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Britton Chance, an Olympic gold medalist sailor whose scientific work helped develop a noninvasive way to diagnose medical problems, has died. He was 97....
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Joseph Gavin (2010)
The Associated PressBETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) — A former president of the New York aerospace company Grumman who headed its Apollo lunar module program in the 1960s has died.Joseph Gavin died at his home...
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Benoit Mandelbrot, 85 (1924 - 2010)
The Associated PressCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Benoit Mandelbrot (ben-WAH' MAN'-dul-braht), a well-known mathematician who was largely responsible for developing the field of fractal geometry, has...
