Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

[gcreptile 10,979]

DDP pick John MacChesney has been dead since 2021:

https://www.optica.org/about/newsroom/obituaries/2021/john_b_macchesney_sr/

 

Nobody seems to have noticed before, not even Wikipedia.

He was even picked for the first time in 2022, after his death...

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

Twitter reporting the death of TV contraption maker Wilf Lunn

 

A Unique DDP hit for my Unusual Suspects team

[YoungWillz 21,062]

5 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Twitter reporting the death of TV contraption maker Wilf Lunn

 

A Unique DDP hit for my Unusual Suspects team

Wiki links to this: https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/LUNN/5162951

 

Thought about picking Wilf Lunn a couple of years ago, but I thought obit chances were dodgy. Let's see.

[Sly Ronnie 886]

8 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Twitter reporting the death of TV contraption maker Wilf Lunn

 

A Unique DDP hit for my Unusual Suspects team

 

He was on Jigsaw wasn't he? RIP.

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

6 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Wiki links to this: https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/LUNN/5162951

 

Thought about picking Wilf Lunn a couple of years ago, but I thought obit chances were dodgy. Let's see.

 

Vision Off....

[Octopus of Odstock 2,203]

7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Wiki links to this: https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/LUNN/5162951

 

Thought about picking Wilf Lunn a couple of years ago, but I thought obit chances were dodgy. Let's see.

 

Telegraph has it:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/20/wilf-lunn-madcap-inventor-tricycles-vision-on-deaf/

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

4 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Telegraph has it:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/20/wilf-lunn-madcap-inventor-tricycles-vision-on-deaf/

 

I really hoped he would obit. Very recognisable to my generation 

[Phantom 2,535]

On 20/12/2023 at 03:48, Bibliogryphon said:

Twitter reporting the death of TV contraption maker Wilf Lunn

 

A Unique DDP hit for my Unusual Suspects team

 

That's really weird. I just saw this today. I was talking to my son about Wilf Lunn just the other day, even found a clip from Eureka on YouTube for him. 

[drol 11,960]

Programmer who invented Pascal, Niklaus Wirth, dead at 89.

[drol 11,960]

Computer scientist David L. Mills (wiki) reportedly dead at 85 on Wiki.

[Salmon Mousse 473]

CPAP machine inventor and Respironics (company was sold to Royal Philips for $5.1 billion in 2008) founder Gerald E. McGinnis dead at 89.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

William "Bill" Post, inventor of the Pop-Tart, has died. He was 96.

 

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/pop-tart-inventor-who-grew-up-in-gr-dies-at-96/

[Gisooo 3,378]

American chemist Allen J. Bard (Wiki) dead at 90, he developed innovations such as the scanning electrochemical microscope, his co-discovery of electrochemiluminescence.

 

[Comped 530]

9 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

William "Bill" Post, inventor of the Pop-Tart, has died. He was 96.

 

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/pop-tart-inventor-who-grew-up-in-gr-dies-at-96/

I'm very surprised he lived that long, especially if he made a regular habit of eating his own invention. Personally I've never had one in my life!

[Phantom 2,535]

14 hours ago, Comped said:

I'm very surprised he lived that long, especially if he made a regular habit of eating his own invention. Personally I've never had one in my life!

You haven't missed anything.

They taste like cardboard that's filled with molten lava 

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

American sound and radio engineer Bob Heil, who created the template for modern rock sound systems, died at 83 years:

https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/il/belleville/robert-g-heil-17719332

He invented the Heil Talk Box which was often used by Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh to make their guitars sound as if they were speaking.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 01/03/2024 at 12:38, TomTomTelekom said:

American sound and radio engineer Bob Heil, who created the template for modern rock sound systems, died at 83 years:

https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/il/belleville/robert-g-heil-17719332

He invented the Heil Talk Box which was often used by Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh to make their guitars sound as if they were speaking.

would be great if the obit mentioned anything about the facts you presented.  Where did you get those - post that link (let me do it for you, here’s one https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/audio-innovator-bob-heil-dies.  Also, try to throw a one liner in there like ‘he doesn’t feel like we do’.  Hey I’m not the enemy, just trying to help).

[YoungWillz 21,062]

German chemist Achim Muller reportedly died 28 February: https://www.chemistryviews.org/achim_muller_1938_2024/

 

Chemistry of transition metals with regard to nanochemistry. Somebody here will probably know what that means.

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

German chemist Achim Muller reportedly died 28 February: https://www.chemistryviews.org/achim_muller_1938_2024/

 

Chemistry of transition metals with regard to nanochemistry. Somebody here will probably know what that means.

Maybe he was an expert in Copper Nanotubes......

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

German chemist Achim Muller reportedly died 28 February: https://www.chemistryviews.org/achim_muller_1938_2024/

 

Chemistry of transition metals with regard to nanochemistry. Somebody here will probably know what that means.

He was well known for his contributions to nanochemistry.  Admittedly, they were very small contributions.

[arghton 6,756]

On 22/03/2021 at 21:58, drol said:

Peng Shilu, the "father of Chinese nuclear submarines", dead at 95.

 

Huang Xuhua, who is also 95, is often referred with that title, and it generated quite a controversy. Historians believe Peng deserved the title more. Huang is a student of decrepit naval engineer Yang You (1917) who has been in hospital for three years and counting. 

Huang Xuhua celebrated his birthday early this month and, like his teacher, seems to be "permanently hospitalised" now too.

They also now claim he's 100.

[drol 11,960]

He reminds me of his rival Peng Shilu in his last days. Huang is a huge name in China, musicals based on his life are very popular.

[drol 11,960]

Israeli organic chemist Alfred Hassner (wiki) reportedly dead at 93.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Anne Innis Dagg, a Canadian zoologist known to many as the woman who loved giraffes, has died. She was 91. Dagg received worldwide recognition as the first Western scientist to study giraffes in the wild in 1956, when she made a solo trip to South Africa when she was 23 years old.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/anne-innis-dagg-woman-who-loves-giraffes-dead-1.7161994

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Just doing some research ahead of blathering about mysteries to a crowd next week

 

Joseph Davidovits - French scientist who went a long way to proving the ancient Egyptians were clever to the point of building much of the pyramids out of their own version of Breeze Blocks (and it was therefore nowt to do with ancient aliens) - is still around, and recently turned 89

 

That stuff on the pyramids is likely a q/o shoo-in story as and when