YoungWillz 21,245 Posted May 24, 2019 1969 Physics winner Murray Gell-Mann, dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-mann-died-.html DDP pick. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,478 Posted May 25, 2019 15 hours ago, YoungWillz said: 1969 Physics winner Murray Gell-Mann, dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-mann-died-.html DDP pick. Telegraph obit for Murray Gell-Mann. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/25/murray-gell-mann-physicist-awarded-nobel-prize-work-elementary/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,153 Posted May 25, 2019 BTW, Jack Steinberger is 98 today! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,821 Posted July 28, 2019 John Schrieffer, co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics, is dead at 88. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted August 9, 2019 1993 Chemistry Laureate Kary Mullis dead at 74: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article233664142.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,153 Posted August 9, 2019 Oh, God! On LSD till the last day, I hope. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 490 Posted October 9, 2019 Annual reminder that new winners are being announced, though they will inevitably fail to garner QOs at death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,902 Posted October 9, 2019 Three co-recipients announced for the Chemistry prize. One of them, John B. Goodenough, is 97 and therefore the oldest Nobel laureate ever. I reckon he’s good enough for next year’s DL. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 490 Posted October 9, 2019 Just now, Ulitzer95 said: Three co-recipients announced for the Chemistry prize. One of them, John B. Goodenough, is 97 and therefore the oldest Nobel laureate ever. I reckon he’s good enough for next year’s DL. Wasn't another of the science winners (physics, I think) 95 last year? Odds on us getting a centenarian as a recipient soon given this small pattern? Mind, I'm still calling no QO given precedent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,902 Posted October 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, CastAway said: Wasn't another of the science winners (physics, I think) 95 last year? Odds on us getting a centenarian as a recipient soon given this small pattern? Mind, I'm still calling no QO given precedent. Correct. Arthur Ashkin was 96 when he was awarded it last year. He was supposedly too frail to go in person to collect his award. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mercarte 151 Posted October 9, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2020) Physics: 1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 93 1957: Chen Ning Yang, 97 1972: Leon Cooper, 89 1973: Leo Esaki, 94 1973: Ivar Giaever, 90 1974: Antony Hewish, 95 1975: Ben Mottelson, 93 1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 96 1978: Arno Penzias, 86 1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, 87 1979: Steven Weinberg, 86 1984: Carlo Rubbia, 85 1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 92 1988: Jack Steinberger, 98 1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 89 1996: David M. Lee, 88 1997: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 86 1999: Martinus Veltman, 88 2000: Herbert Kroemer, 91 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 93 2005: John L. Hall, 85 2009: George Elwood Smith, 89 2013: Peter Higgs, 90 2013: François Englert, 87 2014: Isamu Akasaki, 90 2017: Rainer Weiss, 87 2018: Arthur Ashkin, 97 Chemistry: 1980: Paul Berg, 93 1980: Walter Gilbert, 87 1986: John Charles Polanyi, 90 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 87 1990: Elias James Corey, 91 1991: Richard Ernst, 86 1992: Rudolph Marcus, 96 1995: Paul Crutzen, 86 1996: Robert Curl, 86 2010: Akira Suzuki, 89 2013: Martin Karplus, 89 2019: John B. Goodenough, 97 Literature: 1986: Wole Soyinka, 85 2013: Alice Munro, 88 Peace: 1973: Henry Kissinger, 96 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 88 1984: Desmond Tutu, 88 1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 88 2002: Jimmy Carter, 95 Medicine: 1962: James Dewey Watson, 91 1977: Roger Guillemin, 95 1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 93 1978: Werner Arber, 90 1978: Hamilton Smith, 88 1981: Torsten Wiesel, 95 1982: Bengt Samuelsson, 85 1986: Stanley Cohen, 97 1992: Edmond Fischer, 99 2000: Eric Kandel, 90 2008: Luc Montagnier, 87 2012: John Gurdon, 86 2015: William C. Campbell, 89 2015: Tu Youyou, 89 Economics: 1987: Robert Solow, 95 1990: Harry Markowitz, 92 1990: William Sharpe, 85 1998: Amartya Sen, 86 1999: Robert Mundell, 87 2002: Vernon Smith, 92 2002: Daniel Kahneman, 85 2006: Edmund Phelps, 86 2005: Robert Aumann, 89 2009: Oliver Williamson, 87 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,153 Posted October 9, 2019 Toni Morrison is dead. And Zhores Alferov too. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted November 11, 2019 Not long after selling her Ontario home, report of the death of Literature laureate Alice Munro: However, having had another look, I'd guess this is probably a hoax. Most probably or even definitely. Anyway, Twitter can be a bite in the arse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,638 Posted November 11, 2019 It's that guy who regularly does hoaxes for writers dying... he killed off Harper Lee early (and someone else as well. Don DeLillo?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,902 Posted November 11, 2019 4 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Not long after selling her Ontario home, report of the death of Literature laureate Alice Munro: However, having had another look, I'd guess this is probably a hoax. Most probably or even definitely. Anyway, Twitter can be a bite in the arse. Definitely a hoax. Her editor has confirmed on Twitter that she’s still alive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted February 5, 2020 1986 co-winner of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Stanley Cohen, dead at 97: https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/02/05/stanley-cohen-biochemist-nobel-prize-winner-dies/4669415002 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,386 Posted March 18, 2020 Betty Williams, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, has died. She was 76. She co-won the award with Mairead Corrigan for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People. https://www.ufficiostampabasilicata.it/cronaca/la-basilicata-piange-betty-williams-premio-nobel-per-la-pace/ (Italian language obit) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,638 Posted March 18, 2020 ^^^DDP pick, although not from the Troubles theme team that used to pick her every year as they didn't enter in 2020 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimmy Conway 20 Posted March 18, 2020 6 hours ago, alt obits guy said: Betty Williams, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, has died. She was 76. She co-won the award with Mairead Corrigan for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People. https://www.ufficiostampabasilicata.it/cronaca/la-basilicata-piange-betty-williams-premio-nobel-per-la-pace/ (Italian language obit) Sign of how crazy things are at the moment that none of the big hitters (i.e the BBC, RTE) have reported this as of writing this comment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Jimmy Conway said: Sign of how crazy things are at the moment that none of the big hitters (i.e the BBC, RTE) have reported this as of writing this comment. Never fear, The Times is here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/betty-williams-obituary-xvlb3fzkw (Paywall) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted March 19, 2020 Readable obit for Betty Williams: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51955163 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,902 Posted March 30, 2020 Philip Warren Anderson, American theoretical physicist and the Nobel laureate in Physics (co-recipient, 1977), dead at 96 according to several tweets. Mentions that he was still going to work every day at 96, so must have gone quite suddenly. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,245 Posted April 1, 2020 On 30/03/2020 at 12:09, Ulitzer95 said: Philip Warren Anderson, American theoretical physicist and the Nobel laureate in Physics (co-recipient, 1977), dead at 96 according to several tweets. Mentions that he was still going to work every day at 96, so must have gone quite suddenly. Philip Anderson QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8173677/Phillip-Anderson-Nobel-laureate-physics-dies-96.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chilean way 1,914 Posted May 22, 2020 On 09/10/2019 at 10:53, Mercarte said: Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2020) Economics: 2009: Oliver Williamson, 87 Oliver Williamson died yesterday https://lailasnews.com/international/oliver-williamson-death-dead-obituary-what-happened-to-oliver-williamson/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,086 Posted May 22, 2020 20 minutes ago, chilean way said: Oliver Williamson died yesterday https://lailasnews.com/international/oliver-williamson-death-dead-obituary-what-happened-to-oliver-williamson/ What is lailasnews? That obituary looks less than serious. Edit: Well, the media outfit is clickbait, but the tweets seem real. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
