Nobel Prize In Death

[time 8,603]

Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, Peace Prize recipient, dead aged 80.

[ObakeFilter 902]

2 minutes ago, time said:

Kofi Annan, former UN General Secretary, Peace Prize recipient, dead aged 80.

Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first.

[drol 11,947]

So JpdC and Ban Ki-moon are the only living former UN General Secretaries. Guess who'll go first...

[Heef 166]

4 minutes ago, drol said:

So JpdC and Ban Ki-moon are the only living UN General Secretaries. Guess who'll go first...

 

And Antonio Guterres. Never thought that he looks the healthiest of chaps tbph. 

 

 

[msc 18,476]

Blimey, thought he'd be a Deathlist mainstay eventually tbh.

[TQR 14,397]

Who'd've thought Kofi before Javier?

[Doornail 38]

Commemorating the sad news by having a coffee and a naan.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

2 hours ago, ObakeFilter said:

Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first.

I'm sorry but you really need to explain what you meant by this. 

 

[ObakeFilter 902]

33 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

I'm sorry but you really need to explain what you meant by this. 

 

"rule of three" = celebrities dying in threes during a relatively short amount of time (each celebrity dying w/n a week of each other).

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

1 minute ago, ObakeFilter said:

"rule of three" = celebrities dying in threes during a relatively short amount of time (each celebrity dying w/n a week of each other).

No offense but everytime someone says that they always end up looking like a moron.

[ObakeFilter 902]

11 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said:

No offense but everytime someone says that they always end up looking like a moron.

Looking like a moron for speculating? Isn't it something the whole DeathList idea is based upon?

Well, whatever you say.

[Deathray 2,940]

If stress is the biggest killer he did well to make it to 80. 

[charon 4,943]

5 hours ago, ObakeFilter said:

Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first.

 

 

I guarantee, 3 black folk die every week.

[Bibliogryphon 9,583]

19 hours ago, Doornail said:

Commemorating the sad news by having a coffee and a naan.

 

I will listen to Squeeze Black Kofi is Dead

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Sad to hear. Mr. Annan always struck me as one of the very few - best ones.
Smart, articulate, grounded, a statesman and a gentleman.  RIP!

[Thatcher 2,417]

Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and Nobel Prize in Economics winner of 1996, has died aged 82.

 

Edit: The Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail obituaries.

[Spade_Cooley 9,528]

2009 Physics Laureate Charles K. Kao, who'd been fighting dementia for nearly two decades, dead at 84. DDP pick. 

[msc 18,476]

A pick for me in the Alt Obits pool.

[drol 11,947]

2009 Physics Prize Laureate Charles Kao has died at 84 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. I think he was picked somewhere by @Sean, but I could not find where.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

39 minutes ago, drol said:

2009 Physics Prize Laureate Charles Kao has died at 84 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. I think he was picked somewhere by @Sean, but I could not find where.

 

Here?

[msc 18,476]

Kao gets the most half-assed QO from the Mail I've seen in some time.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

1988 Physics Prize Laureate Leon Max Lederman dead at 96 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/science/leon-lederman-died-particle-accelerators.html

[CastAway 488]

Should be noted that latest winner of Physics (well, 1 of 3 to share the prize this year) Arthur Ashkin is currently 96 - and the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

2 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

1988 Physics Prize Laureate Leon Max Lederman dead at 96 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/science/leon-lederman-died-particle-accelerators.html

Just 3 left alive from the original list of 48 laureates  then 

[Mercarte 151]

Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+:
(Age calculated at the beginning of 2019)

Physics:
1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 92
1957: Chen Ning Yang, 96
1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 89
1972: Leon Cooper, 88
1972: Robert Schrieffer, 87
1973: Leo Esaki, 93
1973: Ivar Giaever, 89
1974: Antony Hewish, 94
1975: Ben Mottelson, 92
1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 95

1978: Arno Penzias, 85

1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, 86

1979: Steven Weinberg, 85
1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 91
1988: Jack Steinberger, 97
1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 88
1996: David M. Lee, 87

1997: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 85
1999: Martinus Veltman, 87
2000: Herbert Kroemer, 90
2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 88
2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 92
2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 87
2005: Roy Glauber, 93
2009: George Elwood Smith, 88
2013: Peter Higgs, 89

2013: François Englert, 86
2014: Isamu Akasaki, 89

2017: Rainer Weiss, 86

2018: Arthur Ashkin, 96

Chemistry:
1967: Manfred Eigen, 91
1980: Paul Berg, 92

1980: Walter Gilbert, 86
1982: Aaron Klug, 92
1986: John Charles Polanyi, 89

1986: Dudley Herschbach, 86
1990: Elias James Corey, 90

1991: Richard Ernst, 85
1992: Rudolph Marcus, 95

1995: Paul Crutzen, 85

1996: Robert Curl, 85
2008: Osamu Shimomura, 90
2010: Akira Suzuki, 88
2013: Martin Karplus, 88

Literature:
1993: Toni Morrison, 87
2013: Alice Munro, 87

Peace:
1973: Henry Kissinger, 95
1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 87
1984: Desmond Tutu, 87
1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 87
2002: Jimmy Carter, 94

Medicine:
1962: James Dewey Watson, 90
1977: Roger Guillemin, 94
1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 92
1978: Werner Arber, 89
1978: Hamilton Smith, 87
1981: Torsten Wiesel, 94
1986: Stanley Cohen, 96
1992: Edmond Fischer, 98
2000: Paul Greengard, 93
2000: Eric Kandel, 89
2002: Sydney Brenner, 91

2008: Luc Montagnier, 86

2012: John Gurdon, 85
2015: William C. Campbell, 88
2015: Tu Youyou, 88

Economics:
1987: Robert Solow, 94
1990: Harry Markowitz, 91

1998: Amartya Sen, 85

1999: Robert Mundell, 86
2002: Vernon Smith, 91

2006: Edmund Phelps, 85
2005: Robert Aumann, 88

2009: Oliver Williamson, 86