Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

[alt obits guy 3,088]

Patrick Winston, a professor and computer scientist at MIT for nearly 50 years,  has died.  He was 76. 

 

http://news.mit.edu/2019/patrick-winston-professor-obituary-0719

 

[Whitehouse 820]

Bob Olodort, the inventor of the label printer and portable keyboard, dies

[gcreptile 10,200]

2 hours ago, Whitehouse said:

Bob Olodort, the inventor of the label printer and portable keyboard, dies

Ah, just today he saved my life again.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

Sherman R. Poppen, a man who many winter sports enthusiasts consider the father of modern snowboarding, has died, according to family members.  A Muskegon, MI native, Poppen died Wednesday, July 31, in Griffin, Georgia. He was 89 years old.

Poppen is most known for his invention of the Snurfer, a snowbound mono-ski with a string on the front similar to a toboggan. He created the contraption in his Muskegon home on Christmas Day 1965.

It was built as a simple toy to entertain his young, energetic children, who by all accounts thought it was a hit.  Seeing their joy, Poppen patented the Snurfer a year later, and the rest is history.

 

Including Sherman.

SC

 

[gcreptile 10,200]

Wikipedia says that Nikolai Kardachev, known for the Kardashev scale for measuring the advancement of civilizations, has died.

A Kardashev civilization type II is able to use the whole energy output of it's star, i.e. has built a Dyson sphere.

[gcreptile 10,200]

Not sure this information is of any use but professor / author / science journal editor Melvyn Fein has inoperable pancreatic cancer and all treatments have failed.

[msc 17,707]

17 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Not sure this information is of any use but professor / author / science journal editor Melvyn Fein has inoperable pancreatic cancer and all treatments have failed.

 

Wont be feeling fein then!

[msc 17,707]

On 04/07/2019 at 12:04, YoungWillz said:

James Lovelock is back just ahead of his 100 birthday.

 

Judge for yourselves if he's got another year in him: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-48858692/james-lovelock-on-the-future-of-ai-and-climate-change

 

According to The New Statesman, James Lovelock is recovering from a lengthy spell of pneumonia.

[gcreptile 10,200]

On 05/08/2019 at 22:40, gcreptile said:

Not sure this information is of any use but professor / author / science journal editor Melvyn Fein has inoperable pancreatic cancer and all treatments have failed.

Melvyn Fein is dead behind the paywall:

https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/news/state/columnist-melvyn-fein-has-died/article_24f18aa9-9ec0-524a-9732-33a6c98b6e3b.html

[dean1991 116]

Arthur Fry turns 89 next year. He invented the Post-It note or sticky note as some people may call it. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fry

 

[Dead Wait 1,095]

1 hour ago, dean1991 said:

Arthur Fry turns 89 next year. He invented the Post-It note or sticky note as some people may call it. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fry

 

 

I’ll make a little reminder for myself about him - know a good way to do this?

[Sir Creep 7,011]

2 hours ago, Dead Wait said:

 

I’ll make a little reminder for myself about him - know a good way to do this?

That (or some version of that) was too easy and obvious.  Sad that dean1991 didn't include that in his post.  

[dean1991 116]

2 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

That (or some version of that) was too easy and obvious.  Sad that dean1991 didn't include that in his post.  

It is distressing. 

[msc 17,707]

Lord Rees looking weak in the Lords, holding onto the bench in front of him to speak on climate change.

 

 

[YoungWillz 18,905]

Yeah, he'll not really need to worry about the outcome though...

[msc 17,707]

Rees lives but his Scottish counterpart, John Campbell Brown, has died suddenly aged 72.

 

http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?p=5149

[time 7,923]

George Laurer, inventor of the universal product code - i.e. the barcode - died last Thursday aged 94.

[drol 10,022]

In a year that has been harsh to veteran computer scientists (George Felton and Conway Berners-Lee spring to mind) legendary MOS computer designer Chuck Peddle has died aged 82 (yes, the source sucks, but there are better ones available).

[alt obits guy 3,088]

Gary Starkweather, who invented the laser printer while employed at Xerox, Died December 26th. He was 81.

 

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/01/16/0059245/gary-starkweather-inventor-of-the-laser-printer-dies-at-81

 

 

 

[TomTomTelekom 3,587]

Scientist, Inventor and Musician Manfred Clynes passed away at 94 years:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/spring-valley-ny/manfred-clynes-9005153

He was best known for his innovations and discoveries in the interpretation of music, and for his contributions to the study of biological systems.

[drol 10,022]

Legendary (and not joking here) mathematician Louis Nirenberg has died at 94.

 

[drol 10,022]

Here is a list of surviving Abel Prize winners. These guys are incredibly longeve, almost as a group of Hong Kong councilmen.

 

*Jean-Pierre Serre (1926): still out and about, he was the one to announce John Tate had died last October.

*Isadore Singer (1924): longtime Michael Atiyah's collaborator and cranky old. 

*Peter Lax (1926): Hungarian legend of applied mathematics.

*Lennart Carleson (1928): Swedish random old guy.

*S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940)

*John G. Thompson (1932)

*Jacques Tits (1930) 

*Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943)

*John Milnor (1931)

*Endre Szemerédi (1940)

*Pierre Deligne (1944)

*Yakov Sinai (1935)

*Andrew Wiles (1953)

*Yves Meyer (1939)

*Robert Langlands (1936)

*Karen Uhlenbeck (1942)

 

Deaths till now are John Nash, Michael Atiyah, John Tate and Louis Nirenberg. Arguably the most famous of them all. Anyway, longevity is just impressive here, with 5 of them over 90 and a 13 over 80.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

4 hours ago, drol said:

Here is a list of surviving Abel Prize winners. These guys are incredibly longeve, almost as a group of Hong Kong councilmen.

 

*Jacques Tits (1930)

 

 

You just trying to slide that one past us?  
What a great name, unless you trying to hit on a girl.  "what's your name' 'I'm mister Tits' .... and away she goes.... 
Of course if he ever married, she could be Mrs Tits.   
Also be good at a restaurant waiting list announcement.... 'Tits party of five, your table is ready'.

If Nobel Prize winners Jacques Tits and Tu YouYou married, she could be Tu Tits.

Yes I could go on and on.  

[Skinny kiltrunner 552]

I heard he was a terrible surfer.  Hence the term, 'useless as Tits on a board.'

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,201]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/science/bruce-s-mcewen-dead.html

This death occurred in January but was underreported. I couldn't find it on here after a search so...

American scientist Dr Bruce McEwen ,whose research on stress established that stress hormones released repeatedly in the body can harm and shrink the brain and also  play a role in damaging the body  causing it to break down and experience poor health, has died aged 81.