Guest WEP Posted December 15, 2008 Excellent list Harold. I have a few additions and corrections.D. Carleton Gajdusek, 84. He is dead: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/science/...dusek.html?_r=1 Sad news for this virologist, who turned an anthropologist with paedophilic motivation. Dead in Norway with 85! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted April 20, 2009 Updated with new entries and deleted deados. Physics: when will they quark it? Chen Ning Yang, 86. Charles Townes, 93. Aage Bohr (son of Nils), 86. Nicolaas Bloembergen, 89. Leon Lederman, 86. Jack Steinberger, 87. Norman Ramsey, 93. Hans Dehmelt, 86. Yoichiro Nambu, 88 Vitaly Ginzburg, 92. Val Fitch, 86. Philip Warren Anderson, 85. Chemistry: soon to be inert? Frederick Sanger, 90. John Cornforth, 91. William Lipscomb, 89. Herbert Hauptman, 92. Jerome Karle, 90. Paul Boyer, 90. Jens Skou, 90. William Standish Knowles, 91. John Fenn, 91. Rudolph Marcus, 85. Walter Kohn, 86. Literature: the final chapter? Jose Saramago, 86. Doris Lessing, 89. Wisława Szymborska, 85. Nadine Gordimer, 85. Peace: RIP? (hell, this stuff writes itself) Norman Borlaug, 95. Nelson Mandela, 90. Henry Kissinger, 85. Shimon Peres, 85. Medicine: Nurse, the screens!! Andrew Huxley (Aldous‘s half-brother), 91. Francois Jacob, 88. Har Gobind Khorana, 87. Christian de Duve, 91. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 99 (oldest living laureate ) Renato Dulbecco, 95. Rosalyn Yalow, 87. Jean Dausset, 92. Robert Furchgott, 92. Edwin Krebs, 90. Joseph Murray, 90. Baruj Benacerraf, 88. Edward Donnall Thomas, 89. Edmond Fischer, 89. Roger Guillemin, 85. Stanley Cohen, 86. Arvid Carlsson, 86. Economics: cashing their final cheque? Ronald Coase, 98. Maurice Allais, 97. Paul Samuelson, 93. Ken Arrow, 87. Lawrence Klein, 88. James Buchanan, 89. Douglass North, 88. Thomas Schelling, 88. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted April 21, 2009 Also worth a mention that Levi-Montalcini is about to become the first ever centenarian laureate, and is still working. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted May 23, 2009 Robert Furchgott, 92. One less medicine laureate. Furchgott is now Furchgone. No one seems to have picked him on the DDP either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted May 26, 2009 Robert Furchgott, 92. One less medicine laureate. Furchgott is now Furchgone. No one seems to have picked him on the DDP either. The ukmedix news site begs to disagree: Man Who Helped SPAM Development Born "This news is unlikely to mean anything to members of the public..." Maybe they should spend less time being patronising and more on getting their headlines right. Tw@ts! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,606 Posted May 28, 2009 Robert Furchgott, 92. One less medicine laureate. Furchgott is now Furchgone. No one seems to have picked him on the DDP either. The ukmedix news site begs to disagree: Man Who Helped SPAM Development Born "This news is unlikely to mean anything to members of the public..." Maybe they should spend less time being patronising and more on getting their headlines right. Tw@ts! Man Who Helped SPAM's Birth Dies They've corrected it now. Hope they could close the coffin lid OK! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WEP Posted May 29, 2009 Sir Clive William John Granger, recipient of the Economics Prize in 2003, dies at 74. http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/28...-clive-granger/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted May 29, 2009 Sir Clive William John Granger, recipient of the Economics Prize in 2003, dies at 74. http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/28...-clive-granger/ Ah yes, I remember this fellow was from my alma matter and won the Nobel Prize the year that I entered the economics program. It must have given the department a collective woody because that's all we heard about for the next year. Guy himself seemed pretty cool though... or at least decent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted June 7, 2009 Medicine: Nurse, the screens!! Jean Dausset, 92. Hasta la vista, Dausset. Seems to be shaping up to be a brutal month. I already have a lot of people to drink to tonight, and a toast to David Carradine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted July 21, 2009 Peace Prize-winning South Korean ex-president Kim Dae-jung was apparently at death's door recently, but seems to be pulling through. Either way, he's certainly not going to da...nnnggggh...must...resist...terrible...pun... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted August 18, 2009 Peace Prize-winning South Korean ex-president Kim Dae-jung was apparently at death's door recently, but seems to be pulling through. Either way, he's certainly not going to da...nnnggggh...must...resist...terrible...pun... As that wise old bird Billy Joel knew, only the good Dae-jung. Couldn't resist after all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted September 10, 2009 Aage Bohr (son of Nils), 85. He's dead. Sorry to Bohr You. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted September 12, 2009 Shimon Peres, 85. Collapsed during a ceremony, but it doesn't sound too serious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted September 13, 2009 Norman Borlaug, 95. Peace prize winning agronomist Norman has yielded a bumper crop. (Edit: skulls added for 2009 on the long list) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WEP Posted October 13, 2009 A new one: Willard S. Boyle, 85. [Link fixed -- MH] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pagad Ultimo 6 Posted November 9, 2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Nobel Laureate in Physics for 2003, is dead at 93. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted December 13, 2009 Paul Samuelson, 93. He's dead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted December 13, 2009 Paul Samuelson, 92. Paul Samuelson, that well known prosthelytizer of neo-Keynesian macroeconomic theory, has died at the age of 94. Edit - Bollocks!! Damn you McNally, I would have been first but I got engrossed in reading his Wikipedia page midway though typing this post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,637 Posted December 24, 2009 Edwin Krebs, 90. DEAD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,606 Posted January 19, 2010 Nobel Laureate Marshall Nirenberg has died (Jan 15 '10) aged 82. One of those responsible for 'breaking the genetic code'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WEP Posted March 8, 2010 Rita levi-Montalcini, oldest-ever Nobel laureate, is released from hospital after an operaton on her broken Thig... http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/sc...1730187555.html (Yes, it's Italian, but believe me, the ancient lady fell, but no she's feeling well!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted March 22, 2010 Sir James Black The Scottish pharmacologist, credited with inventing beta-blockers, has died aged 85. He won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I.R.Baboon 221 Posted June 18, 2010 José Saramago, winner of the Literature Nobel Prize in 1998 and writer of Death with Interruptions (in which people stop dying and start to get much more worried) had died, aged 87. Quite surprised nobody mentioned him in their DDPteam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Going Underground 74 Posted June 18, 2010 Arggggggggghh. Had Jose last year!! Must admit i didnt really consider him this year though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,606 Posted September 30, 2010 Georges Charpak, 1992 Physics Laureate has died aged 86. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Physics Prize "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" in 1968 at CERN, which would become the world's largest atom smasher He was also a survivor of Dachau, having been captured in 1944, working for the French resistance. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
