Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

[Ulitzer95 11,017]

Death notice for John Vernon Bartlett (wiki), aged 94, British civil engineer credited with the Channel Tunnel and London's Victoria line.

[YoungWillz 19,034]

Well, it has all gone tits up for Jacques Tits: 

DDP pick, would have put him under the Famous Belgian thread, but he renounced his citizenship.

[Ulitzer95 11,017]

8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, it has all gone tits up for Jacques Tits: 

DDP pick, would have put him under the Famous Belgian thread, but he renounced his citizenship.

According to his Wiki page, he introduced the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group and the Tits metric.

What a Tit!

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Lovely pair of Tits.

 

RIP

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, it has all gone tits up for Jacques Tits:

Condolences to @Vinegar Tits.

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He must have sighed whenever he was introduced to English speakers.

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I very much enjoyed selecting an image for his entry on the DDP website.

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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, it has all gone tits up for Jacques Tits: 

DDP pick, would have put him under the Famous Belgian thread, but he renounced his citizenship.

He might have regained as since 2008 those who had given up citizenship could apply for it to be restored as from that year Belgium allowed duel citizenship. 
 

RIP.. 

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He's not dead but visible red LED light inventor Nick Holoynak is still alive and just turned 93 a few weeks ago. The Queen has reminded us all he exists by giving him an award for his discovery in 1962, the Queen Elizabeth Price for Engineering, as apparently his invention did a lot to bring about energy efficient lightbulbs. Also, he didn't get the Nobel Prize for this, but apparently the team who worked on his discovery did. Anyhow, alive,  not able to travel due to covid but eminently obitable one day.

[TomTomTelekom 3,601]

Biologist, naturalist, and researcher EO Wilson, who specialized in the study of ants, died at 92 years:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/

He won the the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1979 and 1991.

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8 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Biologist, naturalist, and researcher EO Wilson, who specialized in the study of ants, died at 92 years:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/

He won the the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1979 and 1991.

Also James Dewey Watson's enemy. He described Watson as "the most unpleasant human being I had ever met".

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No obits yet, but great American chemist Fred McLafferty (wiki) has died at 98.

 

McLafferty's rearrangement is one of the finest understandings of chemistry happening in unconventional conditions and my favourite MS rearrangement (fuck retro-Diels Alder, who the hell uses cyclohexenes?).

[Ulitzer95 11,017]

Telegraph death announcement for Árpád Pusztai (wiki), Hungarian-born British biochemist whose concerns over genetically modified potatoes and the effects on the body caused the Pusztai affair in 1998.

He died at his home in Aberdeen on December 17th, aged 91.

Picked in the DDP last in 2014 (d'oh!).

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2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Telegraph death announcement for Árpád Pusztai (wiki), Hungarian-born British biochemist whose concerns over genetically modified potatoes and the effects on the body caused the Pusztai affair in 1998.

He died at his home in Aberdeen on December 17th, aged 91.

Picked in the DDP last in 2014 (d'oh!).

Awe I dared to think it might be Leonard Hayflick you were reporting on before I clicked onto the thread...

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John C. Koss, creator of the hi-fi stereo headphone, dead aged 91.

 

Company obit.

[Ulitzer95 11,017]

1 hour ago, time said:

John C. Koss, creator of the hi-fi stereo headphone, dead aged 91.

 

Company obit.

So he's the one responsible for this abomination?
 

 

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1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

So he's the one responsible for this abomination?
 

 

That would be Mr & Mrs Webb.

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Shirley McBay, mathematician, died aged 86 on November 27th 2021 aged 86. Times

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Co-Inventor of the Ethernet port, David Boggs dead at 71:

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/david-boggs-co-inventor-of-ethernet-port-563347.html

 

 

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Solar physicist Eugene Parker becomes the first faller of my space team this year. On two other DDP teams as well.

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Czech mathematician Jaroslaw Kurzweil dead at 95

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French mathematician who worked in complex industry Jean-Pierre Demailly (Wiki) dead at 64

 

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Stephen E. Wilhite, team leader on the team that developed the .gif file format has died.

 

Covid, according to this.

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11 hours ago, time said:

Stephen E. Wilhite, team leader on the team that developed the .gif file format has died.

 

Covid, according to this.

[Ulitzer95 11,017]

Tweet reporting the death of Ralph Anspach (wiki), aged 96.

Invented Anti-Monopoly, which subsequently caused a few interesting legal battles.