Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

[YoungWillz 19,099]

On 06/02/2023 at 15:46, The Old Crem said:

Abraham Lempel, Israeli computer scientist has died aged 86. Obit(In Hebrew).

Jacob Ziv, who with Lempel co-created the algorithms on which various file types such as GIFs, PNG and ZIP depend, also now reportedly dead aged 91: https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/bj2k2g0x3

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Don Bateman, a former Honeywell International engineer credited with saving thousands of lives with his invention of a cockpit warning system alerting pilots about potential deadly obstacles in their path over land and sea, died May 21 at his home in Bellevue, Wash. He was 91.

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[drol 10,060]

Whale biologist Roger Payne dead at 88.

 

Best friend of Cormac McCarthy among other things.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

Nick Kaiser, British cosmologist, reportedly dead aged 68: 

I'll leave it to someone who understands this sort of thing to report his contributions which seem significant.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Edward Fredkin, who despite never having graduated from college became an influential professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and a maverick theorist who championed the idea that the entire universe might function like one big computer, died on June 13 in Brookline, Mass. He was 88.
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[drol 10,060]

Swiss organic chemist Albert Eschenmoser dead at 97.

 

I often look at organic reactions the way you look at artworks. For me Eschemoser is the painter whom you don't understand at all. Every time I look at one of Eschemoser's reactions I ask myself why there are so many heteroatoms close to each other, why is he putting an epoxy group next to a keto... and so on. He's like a Neil Buchanan of chemistry, you just don't figure out what he is using everything for. 

 

Beside this, it is impressive this guy conceived mechanisms this complex in the 50s and early 60s, when they barely knew what an electron was. That's the immense power of organic chemistry: you would need thousands of quantum calculations to elucidate the mechanism of Eschenmoser fragmentation and still mandatorily having an idea of what happens before running them. The chemist comes to the same mechanism by moving three couples of electrons at most.

 

Still I tend to believe Eschemoser may have been on LSD while designing many of his reactions, his work is a bit too imaginative.

[Ulitzer95 11,085]

Alan Schoen (wiki), dead at 98 according to this tweet.

Computer scientist and physicist who discovered the gyroid.
 

 

[YoungWillz 19,099]

2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Alan Schoen (wiki), dead at 98 according to this tweet.

Computer scientist and physicist who discovered the gyroid.
 

 

Is there a baffled emoji? 

[Toast 14,847]

the gyroid, an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface

 

I want one.

[Death Impends 7,373]

"Gyroid" just makes me think of characters from the Animal Crossing video games.

 

[Leon Brittan 254]

3 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

"Gyroid" just makes me think of characters from the Animal Crossing video games.

 

I loved those guys 

[Gisooo 2,546]

Eleanor Vadala (Wiki), American chemist dead at 99

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Chemist and perennial Nobel candidate Mark Green (wiki) supposedly not doing too well recently.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

29 minutes ago, drol said:

Chemist and perennial Nobel candidate Mark Green (wiki) supposedly not doing too well recently.

‘Mordecai’ middle name; immediate entry into names I dislike, it’s a silly name.

[Gisooo 2,546]

James Burke (Wiki), American engineer, known for being the first manager of the Ranger program, and considered one of the pioneers of America's space program dead at 97

[gcreptile 10,234]

Dennis Austin, principal developer of PowerPoint, has died at 76:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/9/23865578/dennis-austin-powerpoint-co-creator-died

[YoungWillz 19,099]

On 12/04/2018 at 22:19, ObakeFilter said:

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/

Sir Ian Wilmut reportedly dead: 

Haven't checked but surely DDP fodder?

 

Edit: Yep, DDP pick.

[wannamaker 1,067]

If his obit headline isn't Hello, Dolly! I'll be extremely disappointed.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

Ian Wilmut statement from Edinburgh University: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2023/statement-on-the-death-of-professor-sir-ian-wilmut

[Sinbabad 826]

Argentine paleontologist Ruben Dario Carolini, is dead aged 79. He discovered giganotosaurus , considered by scientists as the biggest animal who have ever lived on earth, in 1993 in his own country. The complete name of that dinosaur is actually giganotosaurus carolinii in his honor.

[ObakeFilter 781]

4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Sir Ian Wilmut reportedly dead: 

Haven't checked but surely DDP fodder?

 

Edit: Yep, DDP pick.

A unique pick for my team.

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On 23/06/2021 at 20:38, Thatcher said:

John McAfee, computer programmer and founder of the antivirus software, dead in prison in Spain in an apparent suicide as he was awaiting extradition to the US.

According to a Spanish court, McAfee committed suicide, which concurs with the initial findings. This exhausts all avenues for the McAfee family trying to prove otherwise, at least through the Spanish judicial system.

[drol 10,060]

On 11/09/2023 at 13:25, YoungWillz said:

Ian Wilmut statement from Edinburgh University: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2023/statement-on-the-death-of-professor-sir-ian-wilmut

Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who successfully cloned mice in 1997, dead at 95.

[gcreptile 10,234]

Martin Goetz, software programmer who was the first to receive a patent for "software", dies at 93:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/23/martin_goetz_obit/

[YoungWillz 19,099]

Report of the death of Robert Underwood Ayres, scientist in the fields of industrial ecology and environmental economics (yeah, I'm way out my depth here), aged 91: