ScienceNow: Science policy giant, financier and philanthropist William T. Golden of New York City and Olivebridge in Ulster County, New York, died on 7 October. He was 97.
Few figures have contributed more to American public science policy than Golden, whose long career of public service and charity helped shape both government research agencies and nonprofit science institutions. "He was a humanitarian scientist, … his love of science and its importance to humanity led to many gifts to all of us," says John Gibbons, science adviser to President William Clinton, calling Golden's contributions to U.S. science "almost immeasurable."
Los Angeles Times: The efforts of the Swedish scientist now allow for assays of corrosion of metal surfaces, identification of contaminants and many other applications.
The New York Times: Homer J. Stewart, an aerospace engineer and rocket propulsion expert who in 1958 helped launch the first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, while he kept tabs on rival efforts by the Russians, died on May 26 at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 91.
Earthtimes.org : French winner of the Nobel Prize for physics Pierre- Gilles de Gennes has died at the age of 74, his family said Tuesday in Paris. The scientist and engineer passed away on Friday. He was awarded science's most distinguished prize in 1991 for his work on the behaviour of molecules and molecular chains in liquid crystals.
Photonics.com: Theodore Maiman, PhD, inventor of the first operable laser and twice nominated for a Nobel Prize, died May 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathleen.
The New York Times: E. Dorrit Hoffleit, an astronomer who studied the features of stars visible to the naked eye, edited a standard reference on them and was probably the oldest working scientist in her field, died on April 9 at her home in New Haven. She was 100.
The New York Times: E. Dorrit Hoffleit, an astronomer who studied the features of stars visible to the naked eye, edited a standard reference on them and was probably the oldest working scientist in her field, died on April 9 at her home in New Haven. She was 100.
The New York Times: Paul J. Cohen, a versatile mathematician whose path-breaking work in the field of logic helped resolve a fundamental question of mathematics and won for him the prestigious Fields Medal, died of a lung disease on March 23 in Stanford, Calif. He was 72.
The New York Times: James Hillier, a physicist and inventor who helped develop an early and commercially successful electron microscope for RCA and then found ways to apply it for medical research, died last Monday in Princeton, N.J. He was 91.
El Defensor Chieftain: Former New Mexico Tech professor of physics and Manhattan project scientist Marvin H. Wilkening, 88, died Sunday at the Good Samaritan Village.
The New York Times: Melvin Schwartz, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for generating a beam of wispy particles known as neutrinos, died Monday at a nursing home in Twin Falls, Idaho. He was 73 and lived in Ketchum, Idaho.
The New York Times: James A. Van Allen, the physicist who made the first major scientific discovery of the early space age, the Earth-circling radiation belts that bear his name, and sent spacecraft instruments to observe the outer reaches of the solar system, died yesterday in Iowa City. He was 91.
United Press International: Renowned physicist James Van Allen, who helped launch the United States into the space age and for whom the Van Allen radiation belts are named, has died. He was 91.
Huffington Post: Yoram Kaufman, a senior atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was hit by a SUV on Friday May 26th, Dr. Kaufman while riding his bicycle from one side of the Goddard campus to another. He died from his injuries on May 31st, one day short of his 58th birthday.
The New York Times: Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for capturing evanescent particles known as neutrinos from the sun, died on Wednesday at his home in Blue Point, N.Y. He was 91.
The Washington Post: Theodore A. Litovitz, 82, a Catholic University physics professor and prolific inventor who discovered a way to store nuclear waste more safely, created an electronic chip to shield cellphone users from harmful electromagnetic radiation and developed some of the early fiber optics now used for telecommunications, died of complications of kidney cancer May 1 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis.
ScienceNow: Yuval Ne'eman, one of the most colorful figures of modern science, died today at the age of 80. He was best known for the Eightfold Way classification of elementary particles, developed simultaneously with Murray Gell-Mann in the early 1960s, which helped bring order to the confused world of subatomic physics.
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- William T. Golden Dies
- Kai Siegbahn, 89; Nobel-winning physicist invented electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis
- Homer J. Stewart, 91, Aerospace Engineer, Dies
- French Nobel Prize-winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes dies at 74
- Laser Inventor Dies at 79
- E. Dorrit Hoffleit, Scientist, Dies at 100
- E. Dorrit Hoffleit, Scientist, Dies at 100
- Paul J. Cohen, Mathematics Trailblazer, Dies at 72
- James Hillier, 91, Dies; Co-Developed Electron Microscope
- Tech physics professor was 'quite a gentleman'
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