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Vitaly Ginzburg, 93 (1916 - 2009)
By MANSUR MIROVALEV, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93. Ginzburg died late Sunday of cardiac arrest, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. Ginsburg won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for their contribution to...
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Robert H. Rines (1922 - 2009)
Boston (AP) - Robert H. Rines, a composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died. He was 87. Rines died of heart failure at his home in Boston on Sunday, his wife, Joanne Hayes-Rines, told The Associated Press on Monday. Rines invented prototype...
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Qian Xuesen, 97 (1911 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By JASON DEAN and STEPHEN MILLER Known in China as the "Father of Chinese Aerospace" or simply the "Rocket King," Qian Xuesen helped launch his native country's missile program after his burgeoning scientific career in the U.S. was truncated by allegations of Communist leanings. Mr. Qian, who died Oct. 31 at the age of 98, came...
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Leslie Geddes, 88 (1921 - 2009)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Purdue University bioengineer professor Leslie Geddes, who was credited with more than 30 patents for biomedical devices, has died. He was 88. Purdue says that Geddes died Sunday. He retired as a distinguished professor in 1991, but continued the teaching and research work that resulted in him receiving the National Medal of Technology during a 2007 White House...
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Rodger Doxsey (2009)
BALTIMORE (Associated Press) - Rodger Doxsey, an early leader of the Hubble Space Telescope's science team, has died at age 62, according to the Hubble Web site. Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's Hubble Mission Office, died of cancer Tuesday after entering a hospice over the weekend. The Schenectady, N.Y. native was hired in 1981, nine years before the...
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Richard Whitcomb (2009)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - NASA Langley Research Center says aviation pioneer Richard Whitcomb has died. He was 89. NASA spokeswoman Kathy Barnstorff says Whitcomb died in a Newport News nursing...
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Pedro Elias Zadunaisky (2009)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Associated Press) - Pedro Elias Zadunaisky, an Argentine astronomer and mathematician whose calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturn's outermost moon, Phoebe, as...
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Israel Gelfand, 96 (1913 - 2009)
NEWARK, N.J. (Associated Press) - Israel Gelfand, who was considered one of the world's top mathematicians and did work that was important in the development of medical imaging devices, has died...
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Pavel Popovich (2009)
MOSCOW (The Associated Press) — Former Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, the sixth man to go into orbit, has died at age 78. Boris Yesin of the Russian astronaut training center says Popovich...
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Norman Borlaug, 95 (1914 - 2009)
By MATT CURRY and BETSY BLANEY - Associated Press Writers DALLAS Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in...
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Aage Bohr, 87 (1922 - 2009)
By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer COPENHAGEN (AP)-- Aage Bohr, a nuclear physics professor and Nobel laureate like his father, has died. He was 87. Bohr was awarded the...
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Gordon Woods (2009)
BOISE, Idaho Gordon Woods, a veterinary scientist who helped create Idaho Gem, the world's first cloned mule, has died. He was 57. Woods passed away unexpectedly Thursday, said Dell Rae...
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Louis Rosen, 91 (1918 - 2009)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Louis Rosen, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later created an influential neutron center at the facility, died Thursday. He...
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Wallace Pannier , 81 (1927 - 2009)
By DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writer HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Wallace L. Pannier, a germ warfare scientist whose top-secret projects included a mock attack on the New York subway with powdered...
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Dr. Jerri FitzGerald, 57 (1952 - 2009)
By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer BOSTON -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died. She was 57...
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Edith "Jackie" Ronne, 89 (1919 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN MILLER A rare female in a formerly all-male bastion, Edith Ronne was the first known American woman to set foot in...
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Jean Dausset, 92 (1916 - 2009)
AP - PARIS Jean Dausset, a Nobel prize-winning French immunologist and pioneer behind organ transplants and mapping of the human genome, has died. He was 92. Dausset died of natural causes...
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Robert F. Furchgott, 92 (1916 - 2009)
New York - Robert F. Furchgott, a scientist who won a share of a Nobel Prize and whose work helped lead to the development of Viagra, has died. He was 92. His daughter Susan Furchgott...
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Dr. Herbert Frank York, 87 (1921 - 2009)
SAN DIEGO - Herbert York, founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and a world-renowned physicist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb, has died of leukemia...
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Venetia Phair, 90 (1918 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Venetia Phair, who was 11 years old when she suggested Pluto as the name of the newly discovered planet, has died at age 90, her family said....
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Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell (2009)
Seattle - Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell, whose persistent tracking of deep layers of mud led to a pioneering reassessment of volcano hazards in the Pacific Northwest, died Monday. He was 86. ...
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John Kanzius (1944 - 2009)
ERIE, Pa. - John Kanzius, who had no medical background but invented a device that kills cancer cells, died Wednesday. He was 64. Kanzius died at a hospital in Florida, where he had a winter...
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Barbara Johns (2009)
The 93-year-old daughter of a survivor of an ill-fated 1912 voyage to the South Pole died Wednesday while retracing her father's voyage to Antarctica. Barbara Johns, daughter of biologist...
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Konrad Dannenberg, 96 (1912 - 2009)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Konrad Dannenberg, a German rocket scientist who was part of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put the first American astronauts on the moon, has died. He was 96. His...
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Edward "Atomic Ed" Grothus , 85 (1923 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN MILLER of The Wall Street Journal "Atomic Ed" Grothus spread his antinuclear gospel from the ultimate techno-geek junk...
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Robert Decareau, 82 (1926 - 2009)
NASHUA, N.H. - Robert Decareau, who helped invent the processes necessary to create the microwave oven, died Sunday. He was 82. Decareau, a resident of Amherst, died after suffering from...
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Henry Molaison (2008)
Henry Molaison lived for decades with profound amnesia, but in death he will be remembered for his groundbreaking contributions to understanding the brain. Molaison, who was known as Henry M....
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Edwin E. Salpeter, 83 (1924 - 2008)
Edwin E. Salpeter, an astrophysicist whose work in the "Salpeter-Bethe equation" showed how helium changes to carbon, has died. He was 83. Salpeter had leukemia and died Tuesday at his Ithaca...
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George W. Housner, 97 (1910 - 2008)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller In 1978, as relations between China and the U.S. slowly thawed in the wake of ping-pong diplomacy and President...
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Jacques Piccard, 86 (1922 - 2008)
Geneva - Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son's company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his...
