Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

[Sir Creep 7,011]

Dr. Morton M. Mower, a pioneering cardiologist and former Sinai Hospital staff member who was co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, died of cancer Monday at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver. The former Guilford resident was 89.

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[Sir Creep 7,011]

David Walden, one of the small group of computer scientists who developed the system that underpinned the development of the Internet, has died…

Walden was one of a team of 10 people who were tasked with solving one of the biggest problems in creating a “network of networks” – the fact that different machines were running different operating systems, and therefore they could not communicate with each other directly.

He worked for the Arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agencies Network) of the US Department of Defense. Additional government networks were connected to it before it became the Internet.

‘In 1969, Mr. Walden was part of a small group of talented young engineers tasked with building an interface message processor. Its function was to exchange data between computers connected to the nascent Arpanet network, the forerunner of the Internet. The first IMP was installed that same year at UCLA. IMPs will be critical to the Internet until Arpanet is decommissioned in 1989.’

IMPs evolved into the router, blah blah blah.
Walden was 79.

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[gcreptile 10,211]

Bernard Bigot, french scientist on the forefront of fusion energy research, dead at 72, while still being director of the ITER project:

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2022-05-14/french-scientist-leading-nuclear-fusion-project-dies-at-72

[Death Impends 7,360]

1 minute ago, gcreptile said:

Bernard Bigot, french scientist on the forefront of fusion energy research, dead at 72, while still being director of the ITER project:

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2022-05-14/french-scientist-leading-nuclear-fusion-project-dies-at-72

 

Shouldn't that go in the Dying Bigots thread?

[alt obits guy 3,090]

Cecily Littleton a scientist & horticulturalist and the great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, died April 14th. She was 95. Her death is being reported on May 18th.

 

https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/cecily-littleton-obituary-somerville-philadelphia-scientist-20220518.html?utm_source=t.co&cid=Daily+News+Twitter+Account&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Daily+News+Twitter+Account

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Times death notice for British chemist Peter Maitlis (wiki), aged 89.

Father of BBC journo/newsreader Emily Maitlis.

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Dave Smith the "Father of MIDI", who developed the first polyphonic electronic synthesiser, has died, aged 71/72.

 

The founder of Sequential Circuits, he and co-developer Chet Wood developed what would become the industry standard interface - Musical Instrument Digital Interface - allowing computers and different instruments to communicate. (There are others on here who have a better understanding of what it does than me)

[Sir Creep 7,011]

3 hours ago, time said:

Dave Smith the "Father of MIDI", who developed the first polyphonic electronic synthesiser, has died, aged 71/72.

 

The founder of Sequential Circuits, he and co-developer Chet Wood developed what would become the industry standard interface - Musical Instrument Digital Interface - allowing computers and different instruments to communicate. (There are others on here who have a better understanding of what it does than me)

I just (2020) discarded my original Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 keyboard/sampler.  It was worth $1100 then $1 then $1100 once again but mine quit working fully.  Probably could have gotten a couple $ if the right person found my advert so I didn’t bother.

SirC

[gcreptile 10,211]

Neurobiologist Sir Colin Blakemore dead at 78 from ALS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Blakemore

 

Edit: Okay, this is what it looks like when you quote an embedded tweet here.

 

Edit: Also, apparently quite the big name and a hate figure of animal rights activists, interesting...

[alt obits guy 3,090]

Willie Morrow, the inventor of the afro pick and a pioneer of the Jheri curl hairstyle, has died. He was 82.

 

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-07-01/willie-morrow-dead-inventor-of-afro-pick-and-black-community-leader

[Sir Creep 7,011]

On 02/07/2022 at 04:53, alt obits guy said:

Willie Morrow, the inventor of the afro pick and a pioneer of the Jheri curl hairstyle, has died. He was 82.

 

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-07-01/willie-morrow-dead-inventor-of-afro-pick-and-black-community-leader

There’s no tomorrow for Morrow.

 

Cmon people, it’s like you don’t even try.  
 

[Youth in Asia 1,020]

On 28/06/2022 at 04:11, gcreptile said:

Neurobiologist Sir Colin Blakemore dead at 78 

 

A legendary name at Oxford back in the day

[YoungWillz 18,941]

On 13/11/2010 at 21:38, TAFKAG said:

Didn't realise that the MDMA (and many other psychoactive drugs) 'inventor' Alexander Shulgin was still around, an estimated "4,000 psychedelic experiences" down the line, who "at 85 suffers severe short-term memory loss". No shit.

Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, achieving a List of the Missed spot on the DDP that year.

 

His widow Ann Shulgin, also psychactive "pioneer" has died, not even picked for the DDP but hey, here's what would have been a QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11007421/Ann-Shulgin-pioneer-psychedelics-therapy-dies-91.html

[Gisooo 2,526]

Austrian scientist Herbert W. Franke (Wiki) dead at 95

 

Called as "the most prominent German writing Science Fiction author". He was also one of the important early computer artists, creating computer graphics and early digital art since the late 1950s. Franke was also active in the fields of future research as well as speleology.

 

[arghton 6,114]

On 27/08/2021 at 17:54, gcreptile said:

Austrian weapons manufacturer Gaston Glock seems to be in good health and really close to his daughter (who has a gun in about every second instagram post):

Edit: No, that's actually his current wife, Kathrin Glock.

93rd birthday picture of Gaston Glock, posted on the Glock company twitter account

[TomTomTelekom 3,594]

Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist Juri Hartmanis, who received the 1993 ACM Turing Award, died at 94 years:

https://www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituary/Juris-Hartmanis

He developed many principles of computational complexity theory while working at the General Electric Research Laboratory.

[Thatcher 2,123]

Raymond Damadian, inventor of the MRI, reportedly dead according to numerous reports on Facebook - nothing concrete as of yet but reports seem legit.

[Summer in Transylvania 1,606]

6 hours ago, Thatcher said:

Raymond Damadian, inventor of the MRI, reportedly dead according to numerous reports on Facebook - nothing concrete as of yet but reports seem legit.

Confirmed.

[gcreptile 10,211]

Behind the EU information wall, but too good not to share, Clayton Jacobson, inventor of the Jet Ski, has died at 88:

https://www.havasunews.com/free_access/jet-ski-inventor-clayton-jacobson-dies-at-88/article_07ba53c4-225b-11ed-9cd5-1b903d5d77d6.html

[Gisooo 2,526]

Barry Boehm (Wiki), American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering; the TRW Professor of Software Engineering; and founding director of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at the University of Southern California, dead at 87

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/09/barry-boehm-a-living-legend-in-systems-and-software-engineering-dies-at-87/

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SETI scientist Frank Drake, of the Drake equation fame, dead at 92.

 

Also designed the Arecibo message, beamed towards the M13 star cluster 22,000 light years away:

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Not a scientist or techno wizard, and inventor is stretching it a bit, but Rommy Hunt Revson, creator of the scrunchie, has died aged 78.

 

[TomTomTelekom 3,594]

Nick Holonyak, the inventor of the light emitting diode, who came to be called the 'father of the LED, died at 93 years:

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1920044460

He has been given awards by George H.W. Bush, Emperor Akihito of Japan and Vladimir Putin and in 2008 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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9 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Nick Holonyak, the inventor of the light emitting diode, who came to be called the 'father of the LED, died at 93 years:

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1920044460

He has been given awards by George H.W. Bush, Emperor Akihito of Japan and Vladimir Putin and in 2008 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

His flickering Light went out

[gcreptile 10,211]

Crossposted, Maarten Schmidt, the discoverer of the stars called Quasars, has died at 92:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/maarten-schmidt-im-alter-von-92-jahren-verstorben-a-85f04863-d1a2-43b7-8e68-60b13ad8c7a6

 

DDP pick.