Ulitzer95 12,623 Posted October 5, 2018 Roy Glauber will be 93, not 91 at the start of next year. Got him on my long list. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted October 11, 2018 2009 laureate US-American biochemist Thomas Arthur Steitz, dead at 76 years: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/obituaries/thomas-a-steitz-dead.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted October 21, 2018 On 04/10/2018 at 06:04, Mercarte said: Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2019)Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 911980: Paul Berg, 92 1980: Walter Gilbert, 861982: Aaron Klug, 921986: John Charles Polanyi, 89 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 861990: Elias James Corey, 90 1991: Richard Ernst, 851992: Rudolph Marcus, 95 1995: Paul Crutzen, 85 1996: Robert Curl, 852008: Osamu Shimomura, 902010: Akira Suzuki, 882013: Martin Karplus, 88 Osamu Shimomura dead https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20181021_22/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted November 22, 2018 On 04/10/2018 at 06:04, Mercarte said: Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2019)Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 911980: Paul Berg, 92 1980: Walter Gilbert, 861982: Aaron Klug, 921986: John Charles Polanyi, 89 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 861990: Elias James Corey, 90 1991: Richard Ernst, 851992: Rudolph Marcus, 95 1995: Paul Crutzen, 85 1996: Robert Curl, 852008: Osamu Shimomura, 902010: Akira Suzuki, 882013: Martin Karplus, 88 Aaron Klug dead https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-sir-aaron-klug-om-obituary-dmmx5q9wt A 'List of the Missed' addition, having been picked in 2017 (and possibly before), but not this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeMoneypenny 55 Posted November 22, 2018 Had no idea Rudolph Marcus was still alive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,947 Posted November 22, 2018 16 minutes ago, JoeMoneypenny said: Had no idea Rudolph Marcus was still alive One of the living scientists I admire most. Well, behind Freeman Dyson of course.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted December 7, 2018 On 03/10/2018 at 21:40, CastAway said: 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. Ashkin will not attend the event in Stockholm: http://www.wdam.com/2018/12/07/nobel-prize-winner-no-progress-trump-carbon-taxing/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mercarte 151 Posted December 10, 2018 Riccardo Giacconi, Physics Nobel Laureate, has passed away. https://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2018/12/10/news/e_morto_il_fisico_riccardo_giacconi_nobel_nel_2002_padre_dell_astronomia_a_raggi_x-213929786/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted December 28, 2018 On 05/10/2018 at 19:35, Ulitzer95 said: Roy Glauber will be 93, not 91 at the start of next year. Got him on my long list. You might have to take him off that list. Various Twitter sources are reporting Glauber's death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,623 Posted December 28, 2018 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: You might have to take him off that list. Various Twitter sources are reporting Glauber's death. Confirmed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,432 Posted January 13, 2019 James Dewey Watson stripped of several honours - his 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine not included - for repeatedly claiming that black people are genetically more stupid than white people. https://news.sky.com/story/dna-pioneer-james-watson-stripped-of-honours-after-reckless-race-remarks-11606108 An interesting titbit half way down the article: Quote ...Dr Watson's son, Rufus, has since said his father was in a nursing home after a car crash in October. He said the scientist's awareness of his surroundings were "very minimal"... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted January 13, 2019 3 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said: James Dewey Watson stripped of several honours - his 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine not included - for repeatedly claiming that black people are genetically more stupid than white people. https://news.sky.com/story/dna-pioneer-james-watson-stripped-of-honours-after-reckless-race-remarks-11606108 An interesting titbit half way down the article: Honestly depending on if he makes it to next year (and presuming on the number of hits this year), IMO he should be considered for the main DP - he's one of the really widely known Nobel winners for one of the sciences among the public, he's old, and looks like he's going senile as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted January 28, 2019 On 07/12/2018 at 23:11, gcreptile said: Ashkin will not attend the event in Stockholm: http://www.wdam.com/2018/12/07/nobel-prize-winner-no-progress-trump-carbon-taxing/ Arthur Ashkin has a new invention (and recent picture): https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-nobel-prize-winner-arthur-ashkin-optical-tweezers-levitation-2019-1?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,623 Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: Arthur Ashkin has a new invention (and recent picture): https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-nobel-prize-winner-arthur-ashkin-optical-tweezers-levitation-2019-1?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com The old c**t looks fine. He should have shown a little gratitude and attended his bloody Nobel ceremony. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted February 7, 2019 On 04/10/2018 at 06:04, Mercarte said: Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2019)Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 911980: Paul Berg, 92 1980: Walter Gilbert, 861982: Aaron Klug, 921986: John Charles Polanyi, 89 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 861990: Elias James Corey, 90 1991: Richard Ernst, 851992: Rudolph Marcus, 95 1995: Paul Crutzen, 85 1996: Robert Curl, 852008: Osamu Shimomura, 902010: Akira Suzuki, 882013: Martin Karplus, 88 Manfred Eigen dead. (Unique DDP pick) https://vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pmn/manfred-eigen-1967-nobel-chemistry-laureate-dies-at-91/wcm/f4f72d79-ace5-4b28-b1b9-160f1a20eb92 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted February 7, 2019 1 minute ago, alt obits guy said: Manfred Eigen dead. (Unique DDP pick) https://vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pmn/manfred-eigen-1967-nobel-chemistry-laureate-dies-at-91/wcm/f4f72d79-ace5-4b28-b1b9-160f1a20eb92 Mail Obit: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-6678151/Manfred-Eigen-1967-Nobel-chemistry-laureate-dies-91.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lewd_Squirrel 331 Posted February 9, 2019 Robert Solow has a Nobel Prize, and he's in his 90s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted March 2, 2019 Zhores Alferov, 2000 Laureate in Physics, dead, reportedly: https://www.rt.com/newsline/452819-zhores-alferov-nobel-prize-dies/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted April 5, 2019 South African biologist and nobel laureate Sydney Brenner deat at 92 years https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/nobel-laureate-sydney-brenner-who-helped-place-singapore-on-biotech-world-stage-dies-at-92 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted April 8, 2019 David J. Thouless, a British-American 2016 Nobel Prize winner in physics, has died. He was 84. A unique DDP pick, too. https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-david-thouless-1934-2019/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted April 8, 2019 25 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: David J. Thouless, a British-American 2016 Nobel Prize winner in physics, has died. He was 84. A unique DDP pick, too. https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-david-thouless-1934-2019/ Well, at least another DDP hit. The second one in 10 days. Really a dead year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted April 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Well, at least another DDP hit. The second one in 10 days. Really a dead year. Tbf, February was an extremely busy month, so we’re likely just in a dead period. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted April 14, 2019 Laureate Paul Greengard dead at 93: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/obituaries/paul-greengard-dead.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted April 14, 2019 Paul Greengard, nobel prize laureate from 2000 dead at 93 years: https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/25634-pioneering-neuroscientist-nobel-laureate-paul-greengard-dies-93/ Youngwilz was a few seconds faster 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted April 14, 2019 On 08/04/2019 at 14:23, alt obits guy said: David J. Thouless, a British-American 2016 Nobel Prize winner in physics, has died. He was 84. A unique DDP pick, too. https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-david-thouless-1934-2019/ Thouless QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/04/14/david-thouless-nobel-prize-winner-whose-work-quantum-physics/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
