alt obits guy 3,098 Posted January 24 Tony Gardiner, a former council member of the London Mathematical Society, has died. He was 76. https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/tony-gardiner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted January 29 Crossposting: doyen of CAE Sheng Zhiyong dead at 103. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted February 3 On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said: Here... Hu Hesheng (20 June 1928-) Mathematician, Chinese Mathematical Society VP. Hu Hesheng dead at 95. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted February 6 On 06/02/2023 at 21:10, arghton said: China has CAE and CAS, Taiwan has Academia Sinica. It has 281 Academicians, lots of them also from Mainland China. Here's a list of those born 1932 and before: Chang Chuan-chiung (23 Oct 1928-) Pharmacologist who isolated bungarotoxin. Member since 1976. Chang Chuan-chiung dead at 95. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,548 Posted February 17 British statistician Peter Armitage (Wiki) dead at 99 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted February 21 On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said: Here... Members of CAS (born 1929 or before) Zhu Qihe 朱起鹤 (12 July 1924-) Physical chemist Zhu Qihe dead at 99. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted February 24 Next CAE member dead: Li Pecheng, aged 89. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted February 29 Academic Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield retired from the Lords today. https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-02-28/debates/14918874-3A39-4DF7-9E96-C188BDEFEF50/RetirementOfAMemberLordPlantOfHighfield Interesting to note he is "only" 78 (79 in March). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted February 29 University of Washington Medicine X/Twitter account reporting the death of William A. Catterall, a noted American pharmacologist and neurobiologist. He was 77. Edit: obit: https://newsroom.uw.edu/blog/remembering-bill-catterall-ion-channel-research-pioneer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted March 2 On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said: Here... Members of CAS (born 1929 or before) Sun Jun 孙钧 (3 October 1926-) Underground construction engineer. 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. Sun Jun dead at 97. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted March 3 Edward B. Roberts, who had a seven-decade career at MIT and was a champion of entrepreneurship, has died. He was 88. https://news.mit.edu/2024/professor-edward-roberts-management-scholar-dies-0229 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted March 6 CAS member Zeng Maochao dead at 91. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted March 9 Next CAE member dead, Zhu Nenghong, aged 84. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polar duck 481 Posted March 12 Japanese political scientist Makoto Iokibe dead at 80. He seemed perfectly healthy at the Emperor's birthday celebration a few weeks ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Comped 368 Posted March 12 1 hour ago, polar duck said: Japanese political scientist Makoto Iokibe dead at 80. He seemed perfectly healthy at the Emperor's birthday celebration a few weeks ago. A friend of my grad school stats professor I'm pretty sure.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted March 14 Edwin Wilson, professor of English literature at Stateside Wake Forest University with his own Wiki, reportedly died (yesterday?) aged 101: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,079 Posted March 14 2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Edwin Wilson, professor of English literature at Stateside Wake Forest University with his own Wiki, reportedly died (yesterday?) aged 101: Source. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,548 Posted March 15 American mathematician Murray Gerstenhaber (Wiki) dead at 96 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted March 20 Next CAE member dead: Yang Shie, dead at 92. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted March 20 Next CAE member dead: Li Junxian, aged 96, "suddenly". 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,604 Posted March 29 British professor, author, computer scientist, and security engineering expert Ross J. Anderson died at 67 years: https://therecord.media/ross-anderson-cambridge-professor-passes-away He headed the cryptography sub-program of the University of Cambridge's computer department. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted April 5 Next CAS member dead, Ji Liangnian, dead at 89. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted April 5 32 minutes ago, drol said: Next CAS member dead, Ji Liangnian, dead at 89. I was tempted to pick a bunch of old CAS members for the Cup but I couldn't find your list of the old ones in the 2 minutes I searched before giving up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,548 Posted April 13 Otto Theodor Benfey (Wiki) German-born American chemist and historian of science dead at 98 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HDS 224 Posted April 19 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 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
