Academic Footnotes

[HDS 234]

48 minutes ago, HDS said:

Reports on social media that philosopher Daniel Dennett, one of the leaders of New Atheism, has died. https://x.com/jfgariepy/status/1781368394161213505?s=46&t=Em1VIf8zUlgnB317CmgKkQ

QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/

[Bibliogryphon 9,509]

1 hour ago, HDS said:

Reports on social media that philosopher Daniel Dennett, one of the leaders of New Atheism, has died. https://x.com/jfgariepy/status/1781368394161213505?s=46&t=Em1VIf8zUlgnB317CmgKkQ

 

Gone to meet his.......

 

.....oh wait

[Sod's Law 442]

1 hour ago, HDS said:

Reports on social media that philosopher Daniel Dennett, one of the leaders of New Atheism, has died. https://x.com/jfgariepy/status/1781368394161213505?s=46&t=Em1VIf8zUlgnB317CmgKkQ

Richard Dawkins still going on a worldwide tour but he's 83 and had a stroke a few years ago. Out of the big four, there will only be Sam Harris left soon and he's the youngest by some margin.

[YoungWillz 20,918]

It is an absolute rout of philosophers lately.

 

So add Charles Parsons to the list of the deceased, American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Harvard: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/charles-parsons-obituary?id=54926563 and https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/04/in-memoriam-charles-d-parsons-1933-2024.html

[alt obits guy 3,365]

Sue Johnson, a world renowned psychologist, best selling author, professor, and researcher, and the creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), has died. She was 76.

 

https://drsuejohnson.com/in-remembrance-of-dr-sue-johnson/

[drol 11,797]

Double CAE and CAS academician Chang Yinfo dead at 92.

[drol 11,797]

On 27/10/2023 at 14:30, arghton said:

Chen Junwu visited this month. Permanently hospitalised, his physical condition is so bad he can't pose for photos (probably hooked up to machines considering how some months ago they visited Wang Xiji who was described as "healthy" despite being very frail, having discolored hands and a nasogastric tube) and apparently unable to talk

Chen Junwu dead at 97.

[polar duck 775]

CAS member Wan Huilin dead at 86.

[drol 11,797]

On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said:

Here...

 

Members of CAS (born 1929 or before)

 

Wang Geng 汪耕 (October 1927-) Electrical engineer.

 

Wang Geng dead at 96.

[drol 11,797]

On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said:

Here...

 

Members of CAS (born 1929 or before)

 

Dai Lixin 戴立信 (13 November 1924-) Organic chemist who was sent to camps during the Cultural Revolution.

 

To be continued later - lots of future centenarians there. CAE should have much less nonagenarian members especially after half of them died from covid in December-January.

Dai Lixin dead at 99.

[drol 11,797]

American sociologist Harrison White (wiki) reportedly dead on Twitter at 94.

[Gisooo 3,259]

American philosopher Fred Dallmayr (Wiki) dead at 95

 

[Gisooo 3,259]

British biochemist Pauline Harrison (Wiki) dead at 97

 

[Craigerz 60]

On 20/05/2024 at 15:24, drol said:

American sociologist Harrison White (wiki) reportedly dead on Twitter at 94.

Died while on Twitter? Don't blame him!

[drol 11,797]

Chinese pathophysiologist Wang Zhenyi, who will turn 100 later this year and was labelled many times as indestructible on these forums, was on oxygen at his last birthday, which is never a good sign at that age.

[Gisooo 3,259]

On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said:

Wu Yangjie 吴养洁 (1 January 1928-) organic chemist, decrepit

Zhang Cunhao (23 February 1928-) Physical chemist notable for his work on lasers.

Wang Kui 王夔 (7 May 1928-) inorganic chemist, looked very frail in 2018.

Yu Hongru 俞鸿儒 (15 June 1928-) Aerodynamicist.

Hu Hesheng (20 June 1928 - 2 February 2024) Mathematician, Chinese Mathematical Society VP.

Han Jisheng 韩济生 (17 July 1928-) Neurophyschiologist still in good health.

Gao Zhentong 高镇同 (15 November 1928-) structural fatigue expert.

Wang Fangding 王方定 (21 December 1928-) Radiochemistry expert

 

Chinese physical chemist Zhang Cunhao (Wiki) dead at 96

[arghton 6,639]

On 08/01/2024 at 12:30, An Fear Beag said:

Dosmukhamed Kshibekov (CHEL). Last year he jointly won the WTFAT award as a Kazakh Geologist. This year, the Russian Wiki link I was sent called him a Kazakh Philospopher, but also calls him “Dosmukhamed Krzybekov” at one point, so I’m fucked if I know what is going on.

Dosmukhamed Kshibekov, a rejected Hares pick and "major propagandist of science" as the obituary says, has died at 99. 

[gcreptile 10,939]

Top russian economist Valentina Bondarenko has died at 82 after falling out of a window:

https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-economist-dies-after-falling-out-window-1929398

[An Fear Beag 1,512]

On 22/07/2024 at 16:25, arghton said:

Dosmukhamed Kshibekov, a rejected Hares pick and "major propagandist of science" as the obituary says, has died at 99. 

 

Thanks for picking that up. Having read through the obituary, I am entirely happy with my decision to reject him. 

[arghton 6,639]

On 27/10/2023 at 15:30, arghton said:

...some months ago they visited Wang Xiji who was described as "healthy" despite being very frail, having discolored hands and a nasogastric tube)

Wang Xiji, one of China's greatest aerospace engineers, pictured on his 103rd:

On oxygen now, no nasogastric tube.

 

Edit: Looking at that image from his last birthday, he seems much better. There he seemed barely conscious with his hands looking like a bad case of peripheral cyanosis.

[Obitwatcher 21]

Trevor Burnard, historian (who taught me as it happens) died on 22 July. Guardian obit from 15/8

Clever and nice man.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/aug/14/trevor-burnard-obituary

[drol 11,797]

With the death of Zhou Guangzhao, only two scientists from the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" program are alive: Wang Xiji (1921) and Sun Jiadong (1929).

 

Wang has been in extremely failing health for years, don't know about Sun, but he has not shown up in a while.

[alt obits guy 3,365]

John Woods, a Canadian philosopher and logician who held honourary and emeritus positions at several universities and who co-authored nearly 20 books, has died. He was 86 or 87.

 

https://dailynous.com/2024/08/18/john-woods-1937-2024/

[Summer in Transylvania 2,134]

On 28/12/2010 at 07:56, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Dutton was the founder of the "Bad Writing Contest" which he awarded annually to a prominent academic, (winners included Judith Butler and Fredric Jameson), in an attempt to highlight the intellectual vacuity, arrogance and obfuscation rife in modern academia.

Fredric Jameson reportedly dead at 90.

[drol 11,797]

On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said:

Here...

 

Members of CAS (born 1929 or before)

 

Tian Zhiaowu 田昭武 (x June 1927-) Electrochemist.

 

 

To be continued later - lots of future centenarians there. CAE should have much less nonagenarian members especially after half of them died from covid in December-January.

Tian Zhiaowu, electrochemist, dead at 97.