Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

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Bev Dolan, co-founder of E-Z-GO and co-inventor of the industry’s oldest golf car brand had died.

 

 

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2018-02-22/e-z-go-co-founder-bev-dolan-dies

[YoungWillz 20,890]

37 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

The death of inventor Trevor Baylis has just been announced on the news ... unless it's a wind-up.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80

[charon 4,943]

Awww. Good guy was Bayliss.

[Sir Creep 7,068]

David T. Shidle, a retired National Security Agency crypto-mathematician who was also a pig fancier, died Monday from cancer.

The Ellicott City resident was 75.

David Thomas Shidle was born and raised in Commodore, Pa., where he graduated in 1960 from Purchase Line High School and was his class valedictorian.   He attended Michigan State University on a scholarship, and in 1964 received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.   That same year he became an intern at the NSA’s headquarters at Fort Meade in crypto-mathematics — the use of advanced math in ciphers to protect information.   Mr. Shidle “achieved the maximum score on the math test that we were required to take,” said his wife, who was a NSA cryptanalyst.

Mr. Shidle developed an interest in pigs after his son and his daughter-in-law purchased a pig and named it Rainbow.  “He started studying everything he could about pigs, and he visited Rainbow once a week,” Mrs. Shidle said.  In 2016, another pig that caught his interest was Wee Wee, a two-week old piglet that fell off a truck during a snowstorm on Route 40 near Hagerstown.  Wee Wee had been heading to auction and a likely destination to a slaughterhouse.  A couple had been driving along the highway with their children when they spotted Wee Wee in a snowbank. The family rescued the pig and later donated it to Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary in Poolesville.   Mr. Shidle heard about the pig and “visted Wee Wee several times, one time with my son,” his wife said. She also noted that one of his philanthropic interests was the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary in Marana, Ariz.

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Dolly the sheep cloner, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, reveals Parkinson's diagnosis

https://stv.tv/news/east-central/1412203-dolly-the-sheep-cloner-reveals-parkinson-s-diagnosis/

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On 27.9.2017 at 22:29, Death Impends said:

Wait... just did some category searching on Wiki. Found another four:

 

Lilli Hornig

Geoffrey Chew

Dieter Gruen

Isabella Karle

There also was a Nerses "Krik" Krikorian... "legendary" scientist.... now also dead:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/20/us/ap-us-obit-nerses-krikorian.html

[Sir Creep 7,068]

4 hours ago, gcreptile said:

There also was a Nerses "Krik" Krikorian... "legendary" scientist.... now also dead:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/20/us/ap-us-obit-nerses-krikorian.html

But still no Barys Kit....
 

[Sir Creep 7,068]

From yesterday's NYTimes

Robert N. Hall’s legacy can be found at almost every checkout counter — that little red blinking laser scanner that reads bar codes on milk cartons, boxes of light bulbs, price tags dangling from a new jacket and just about everything else that can be bought in a store.

A product of his inventive labor can also be found in most kitchens nowadays: the microwave oven.

Yet for all the widespread familiarity of what Dr. Hall wrought as a remarkably ingenious physicist, his death, at 96, on Nov. 7, 2016, gained little notice. An announcement paid for by his family appeared in two upstate New York newspapers — The Times Union of Albany and The Daily Gazette of Schenectady — and General Electric, in a company publication, published a remembrance a month later. But otherwise the news of Dr. Hall’s death did not travel very far.
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[Phantom 2,527]

Glenn Snoddy inventor of the fuzz guitar pedal has died at the age of 96.

[YoungWillz 20,890]

DDP pick Georg von Tiesenhausen, the last surviving rocket scientist of Wernher von Braun's team, has reportedly died aged 104: https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2018/06/dr_georg_von_tiesenhausen_last.html

[Death Impends 7,916]

Only unique on my theme this year. I think the von Braun ties will give him an obit.

[YoungWillz 20,890]

2 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

Only unique on my theme this year. I think the von Braun ties will give him an obit.

Could only find one report from the Mail back in 2011 on him.

 

Another Barys Kit? Who knows? Certainly, last survivor, blah blah may be promising....

[Death Impends 7,916]

Last survivor of the original wave of von Braun scientists Oscar Holderer got multiple UK reports of his death. GVT arrived a few years after. Will that be enough, we shall see...

[Death Impends 7,916]

GVT gets his due from Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/05/georg-von-tiesenhausen-rocket-scientist-obituary/

[alt obits guy 3,360]

Troy Hurtubise, who invented the ‘Ursus Mark VI' suit of armour designed to protect the wearer from bear attacks, was killed in a car accident June 17th.  He was 54.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/police-say-bear-suit-inventor-troy-hurtubise-died-in-northern-ont-highway-crash-1.3985350

 

[En Passant 3,721]

36 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Troy Hurtubise, who invented the ‘Ursus Mark VI' suit of armour designed to protect the wearer from bear attacks, was killed in a car accident June 17th.  He was 54.

 

To be fair a car is a pretty useful suit of armour against a bear. 

Against a truck? Not so much.

[charon 4,943]

To be fair, BEAR look after some of the roads up here so a bear death by vehicle not uncommon.

 

http://bearscot.com/

 

 

Mate has a couple of grand bill from them for wiping out a crash barrier two winters ago.

 

They got his car reg slightly wrong, unlucky.

[alt obits guy 3,360]

Alfred Alberts, the man behind the first cholesterol-lowering statin approved in the United States, died on June 16. He was 87.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/obituaries/alfred-alberts-unsung-father-of-a-cholesterol-drug-dies-at-87.html

 

[alt obits guy 3,360]

Charles Cole, inventor of Stealth Rubber, has died at age 63.

 

https://rockandice.com/climbing-news/charles-cole-founder-five-ten-stealth-rubber-inventor-dies-age-63/

 

[alt obits guy 3,360]

Burton Richter, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, has died.  He was 87.

 

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/19/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-burton-richter-dies-87/

 

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Lincoln Brower, an entomologist and the foremost authority on the Monarch butterfly, has died.  He was 86.

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article215263415.html

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 20,890]

11 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Lincoln Brower, an entomologist and the foremost authority on the Monarch butterfly, has died.  He was 86.

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article215263415.html

 

 

 

Oh!

 

Who's our go to guy for info on Monarch butterflies now?

[alt obits guy 3,360]

15 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Oh!

 

Who's our go to guy for info on Monarch butterflies now?

Queen Elizabeth II.  She's known a lot of monarchs in her time.

[alt obits guy 3,360]

Alan Rabinowitz, a world renown zoologist and the founder of Panthera, an organization dedicated to wild cat conservation, has died.  He was 64.

 

https://www.panthera.org/statement-life-and-legacy-panthera-founder-and-renowned-conservationist-dr-alan-rabinowitz

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,493]

James Lovelock was interviewed on the Today programme this morning.  He was talking about impending environmental Armageddon but was sounding coherent and chipper for a 99 year old.