Nobel Prize In Death

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German-American physicist and nobel laureate Jack Steinberger died at 99 years already last month, but now one month later obit from Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/11/jack-steinberger-obituary

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On 9/10/2019 at 10:53, Mercarte said:

Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+:

Chemistry:
 

1995: Paul Crutzen, 86

Crutzen dead https://apnews.com/article/science-germany-nobel-prizes-chemistry-climate-change-08f60dca0a3301b31c2c80b1213a1b79

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On 16/12/2020 at 08:05, drol said:

Zhenning will be the last survivor without any doubt. He is still doing relatively well and is two years younger.

Chen Ning-yang allows his wife to remarry after his death, feeling it is not far.

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Oldest and earliest alive laureates of each nobel prize:

 

Physics:

Earliest and oldest: Yang Chen-Ning (born 1922), awarded 1957

Earliest (1957) with Chen-Ning: Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1926)

Second earliest: Leon Cooper (born 1930), awarded 1972

Second oldest: Antony Hewish (born 1924), awarded 1974

 

Chemistry:

Earliest: Walter Gilbert (born 1932) and Paul Berg (born 1926), awarded 1980

Oldest: John B. Goodenough (born 1922), awarded 2019

Second earliest: Roald Hoffman (born 1937), awarded 1981

Second oldest: Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923), awarded 1992

 

Physiology/Medicine:

Earliest: James Watson (born 1928), awarded 1962

Oldest: Edmond H. Fischer (born 1920), awarded 1992

Second earliest: David Baltimore (born 1938), awarded 1975

Second oldest: Roger Guillemin (born 1924), awarded 1977

 

Literature:

Earliest and second oldest: Wole Soyinka (born 1934), awarded 1986

Oldest: Alice Munro (born 1931), awarded 2013

Second earliest: Kenzaburo Ore (born 1935), awarded 1994

 

Peace:

Earliest and oldest: Henry Kissinger (born 1923), awarded 1973

Second earliest: Mairead Maguire (born 1944), awarded 1976

Second oldest: Jimmy Carter (born 1924), awarded 2002

 

Economics:

Earliest and oldest: Robert Solow (born 1924), awarded 1987

Second earliest: Harry Markowitz (born 1927), awarded 1990

Second oldest: Vernon L. Smith (born 1927), awarded 2002

 

Oldest out of all of them is Edmond H. Fischer, born 1920, earliest are Yang Chen-Ning and Tsung Dao-Lee, awarded 1957.

Youngest on this list is Mairead Maguire, born 1944, latest is John B. Goodenough, awarded 2019.

 

 

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The most impressive record on that list is James Watson. If he makes it into 2022 he'll have lived 60 years with a Nobel prize at not even 100. Is there any such precedent?

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15 hours ago, arghton said:

 

Youngest on this list is Mairead Maguire, born 1944, latest is John B. Goodenough, awarded 2019.

He won because the committee looked at the candidates and decided only one was Goodenough.

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Japanese scientist Isamu Akasaki,  who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his creation of energy-saving sources of white light, died at 92 years:

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021040200887/

He was also the recipient of many other distinguished honors, including the Order of Culture from the Japanese Emperor Akihito.

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On 16/12/2020 at 08:05, drol said:

Zhenning will be the last survivor without any doubt. He is still doing relatively well and is two years younger.

Rumours of Yang Zhenning's death have been officially denied by Tsinghua University. No smoke without fire?

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On 02/04/2021 at 11:53, TomTomTelekom said:

Japanese scientist Isamu Akasaki,  who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his creation of energy-saving sources of white light, died at 92 years:

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021040200887/

He was also the recipient of many other distinguished honors, including the Order of Culture from the Japanese Emperor Akihito.

Inventor of the first LED with efficience in the blue, based on GaN. GaN has a direct band gap, which means that in the k space the top of the valence band has the same wavevector of the bottom of the conduction band, which enables direct electronic transition (as the selection rules are "vertical transitions" unless phonons are coupled) and gives radiative recombinations of "excitons" (binding energy is very low in inorganic materials, it is exaggerated to talk about bound states) a decent rate, accordinf to Fermi Golden Rule. For an instance the most common inorganic semiconductor, silicon, has an indirect band gap, so you would need an awful lot of energy to directly excit the transition and the radiative rate can be neglected (no luminescence in silicon!). Organic LEDs (OLEDs) are the new frontier for LEDs. But I will talk better about them when Martin Pope dies and being 103 it should not be a long time.

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Robert Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prize winner in economics, has died. He was 88.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2021/04/04/the-zeus-of-economics-has-died/?sh=1e9b145f5baa

 

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On 03/04/2021 at 17:49, drol said:

Rumours of Yang Zhenning's death have been officially denied by Tsinghua University. No smoke without fire?

Our guy Yang Zhenning grants interview with Xinhua. Frail, but not too much, hides a pillow behind his back.

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The great Ei-ichi Negishi is dead. 

http://www.wbiw.com/2021/06/11/ei-ichi-negishi-one-of-two-nobel-prize-winners-from-purdue-university-dies/

A God of modern organometallic chemistry. Only Suzuki left now. 

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On 05/02/2008 at 16:31, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Edmond Fischer, 87.

https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/39131/conversation-edmond-fischer/meeting-2021

Fischer, now 101 and the last man standing from the original list seems to be in very good shape mentally and physically.

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Reports that Steven Weinberg, Physics Laureate in 1979, has died: 

 

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Japanese media reporting that Toshihide Maskawa, Physics Laureate from 2008, has died aged 81: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210729/k10013168691000.html

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On 08/07/2021 at 14:33, arghton said:

https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/39131/conversation-edmond-fischer/meeting-2021

Fischer, now 101 and the last man standing from the original list seems to be in very good shape mentally and physically.

Edmond H Fischer in great shape for someone who is dead: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/news-nobel-laureate-edmond-h-fischer

 

Oldest living Laureate now is....?

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5 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Edmond H Fischer in great shape for someone who is dead: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/news-nobel-laureate-edmond-h-fischer

 

Oldest living Laureate now is....?

Yang Zhenning!!!

 

Nah, it is 99-years old John B. Goodenough. Let's see if he is good enough to become a centenarian.

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Torsten Wiesel (1981) now succeeds Fischer as the oldest living Medicine Prize winner. He was 97 in June. James Watson (of Crick and Watson fame) is second on that particular list.

 

The other prizes are as follows:

John B. Goodenough (99) - Oldest living Chemist (2019)

Yang Zhenning (98) - Oldest living Physicist (1957)

Henry Kissinger (98) - Oldest living Peace Winner (1973)

Robert Solow (97) - Oldest living Economist (1987)

Alice Munro (90) - Oldest Living Literature Winner (2013)

 

Thanks, Scavenger Hunt III.

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British radio astronomer and 1974 co-laureate in Physics, Antony Hewish (wiki), died on 13th September, aged 97.

Announcement from Cambridge Uni.

A unique pick in the DDP. QO assured.

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Hewish QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/16/professor-antony-hewish-astronomer-jointly-won-nobel-prize-discovery/

 

A little surprising he's unique for my space team, but I guess the amount of NQO laureates in recent years has meant less Nobel theme teams.

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Add two new nonagenarians on your lists: Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, both born 1931.

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On 05/10/2021 at 12:02, drol said:

Add two new nonagenarians on your lists: Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, both born 1931.

Actually Giorgio Parisi looks much frailer than them despite being only 73.

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Malala Yousafzai, the girl who got the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for girls' rights to go to school in Afghanistan has married.

And I can't believe she survived both the Taliban and Birmingham.

 

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Co-recipient of the 2005 Chemistry Prize, Robert H Grubbs being widely reported dead on Twittermorgue aged 79: 

 

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We'll never know if those Grubbs catalysts are Fischer or Schrock carbenes!