Everett Mendelsohn, Who Linked Science and Society, Dies at 91
A longtime professor at Harvard, he lectured on atom bombs, genetics and more, examining how science, culture and politics influence one another.
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Sheldon Krimsky, Leader in Science Policy and Ethics, Dies at 80
Krimsky warned strenuously about the corrupting power of money in science.
Obituary: Richard R. Ernst (1933-2021)
Nobel prizewinner who revolutionized nuclear magnetic resonance.
Paul Greengard, 93, Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist, Is Dead
His 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs.
Stephen Hawking, Science's Brightest Star, Dies Aged 76
The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: We will miss him for ever.
Maryam Mirzakhani Drew Her Way to Mathematical Greatness
Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician, but worked like an artist, always drawing.
Maryam Mirzakhani Dies at 40
An Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.
Der bekannte Entwicklungsbiologe Walter Gehring ist tot
Mit Walter Gehring ist einer der letzten grossen, umfassend gebildeten Biologen von uns gegangen.
Frederick Sanger, two-time nobel-winning scientist, dies at 95
Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth hormone and earned him two Nobel Prizes, a distinction held by only three other scientists, died on Tuesday in Cambridge, England.
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