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Tihomir Novakov

United States

c. 1930 – 2015 (85 years old)

Tihomir Novakov, also known as Tica Novakov was a Serbian-born American physicist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Stephanie Louise Kwolek

United States

1923 – 2014 (90 years old)

American chemist at DuPont who invented Kevlar, the revolutionary synthetic fiber five times stronger than steel.

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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Gerald B. Whitham

Great Britain

c. 1928 – 2014 (86 years old)

Gerald Beresford Whitham FRS was a British–born American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics (Emeritus) of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Heini Halberstam

Great Britain

c. 1926 – 2014 (88 years old)

Heini Halberstam was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Hans Meuer

Germany

c. 1937 – 2014 (77 years old)

Hans Meuer was a professor of computer science at the University of Mannheim, managing director of Prometeus GmbH and general chair of the International Supercomputing Conference. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Berlin, Germany

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Jumber Lominadze

Switzerland

c. 1931 – 2014 (83 years old)

Jumber Lominadze was a Georgian astrophysicist associated with the Georgian Academy of Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Frank Bernard Cockett

Great Britain

c. 1917 – 2014 (97 years old)

Frank Bernard Cockett FRCS was a senior British surgeon, author and art historian.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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John G. Cleary

Switzerland

c. 1950 – 2014 (64 years old)

John Gerald Cleary was a New Zealand-Canadian professor of computer science, entrepreneur, politician and promoter of Transcendental Meditation.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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John Dobson

United States

c. 1916 – 2014 (98 years old)

John Lowry Dobson was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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William Feindel

Canada

c. 1919 – 2014 (95 years old)

William Howard Feindel was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Ottawa, Canada

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Zoltán Pál Dienes

Switzerland

c. 1917 – 2014 (97 years old)

Zoltán Pál Dienes, anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes, was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Riad Barmada

United States

c. 1930 – 2014 (84 years old)

Riad Barmada was a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Marc Yor

France

c. 1950 – 2014 (64 years old)

Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Dale T. Mortensen

United States

c. 1940 – 2014 (74 years old)

Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Jean-Jacques Moreau

France

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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D. Harold McNamara

United States

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Delbert Harold McNamara, Ph.D. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Shirley Jeffrey

Australia

c. 1940 – 2014 (74 years old)

Shirley Winifred Jeffrey was an Australian marine biologist and naturalist, who researched biochemical separation techniques, specialising in micro-algal research; her discovery, isolation and purification of chlorophyll c allowed for the evaluation of oceanic microscopic plant biomass and photosynthesis. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Canberra, Australia

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Adusumilli Srikrishna

India

c. 1955 – 2013 (58 years old)

Adusumilli Srikrishna (1955–2013) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of organic chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

New Delhi, India

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