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María Páramo

Colombia

c. 1964 – 2025 (61 years old)

María Euridice Páramo Fonseca was a Colombian paleontologist and geologist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Bogotá, Colombia

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Kunioki Mima

Japan

c. 1946 – 2025 (79 years old)

Kunioki Mima was a Japanese plasma physicist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Tokyo, Japan

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Eleanor Maguire

Ireland

c. 1971 – 2025 (54 years old)

Eleanor Anne Maguire was an Irish neuroscientist who was Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, where she was also a Wellcome Trust principal research fellow, from 2007 until her death in 2025.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Dublin, Ireland

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Sine Larsen

Denmark

c. 1944 – 2025 (81 years old)

Professor Sine Ydun Larsen was a Danish structural chemist, crystallographer and scientific director. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Ana Gligić

Switzerland

c. 1935 – 2025 (90 years old)

Ana Gligić was a Yugoslav and Serbian virologist, a specialist in medical microbiology, and a senior research associate at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Rajagopala Chidambaram

India

c. 1937 – 2025 (88 years old)

Rajagopala Chidambaram was an Indian physicist who is known for his integral role in India's nuclear weapons program; he coordinated test preparation for the Pokhran-I (1974) and Pokhran-II (1998).. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

New Delhi, India

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Claude Allègre

France

c. 1938 – 2025 (87 years old)

Claude Jean Allègre was a French politician and scientist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Benny Lautrup

Denmark

c. 1940 – 2025 (85 years old)

Benny Lautrup was a Danish academic who was a professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Thomas Streicher

Austria

c. 1959 – 2025 (66 years old)

Thomas Streicher was an Austrian mathematician who was a Professor of Mathematics at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Vienna, Austria

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Olesya Vadimovna Sokur

Ukraine

c. 1961 – 2025 (64 years old)

Olesya Vadimovna Sokur was a Ukrainian biologist and biochemist and Doctor of Biological Sciences. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Zdzisław Skupień

Poland

c. 1939 – 2025 (86 years old)

Zdzisław Skupień was a Polish mathematician, expert in optimization, discrete mathematics, and graph theory, academic, and dr. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Warsaw, Poland

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Joan Guinovart

Spain

c. 1948 – 2025 (77 years old)

Joan Josep Guinovart Cirera was a Spanish biochemist known for research on glycogen and liver glycogen synthase, as well as for work in FEBS, IUBMB and the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Madrid, Spain

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Mario Molina

Mario José Molina Henríquez

Mexico

1943 – 2020 (77 years old)

Mexican physical chemist who discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) decompose stratospheric ozone, earning the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and spearheading the Montreal Protocol.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking

United Kingdom

1942 – 2018 (76 years old)

Legendary British theoretical physicist and cosmologist who discovered Hawking radiation and authored A Brief History of Time.

London, United Kingdom

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Vera Rubin

Vera Florence Cooper Rubin

United States

1928 – 2016 (88 years old)

Pioneering astronomer whose measurements of galaxy rotation rates provided the first robust empirical evidence for dark matter.

Washington, D.C., United States

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John Glenn

John Herschel Glenn Jr.

United States

1921 – 2016 (95 years old)

First American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962, U.S. Senator, and oldest person to fly in space at age 77.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Ahmed Zewail

أحمد حسن زويل

Kingdom of Egypt (Egypt)

1946 – 2016 (70 years old)

Egyptian-American chemist revered as the 'father of femtochemistry' who used ultrafast lasers to film chemical bonds breaking and forming in real time.

Giza, Egypt

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Stephanie Kwolek

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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