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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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Thomas Eugene Kurtz

Thomas Kurtz

United States

1928 – 2024 (96 years old)

American mathematician and computer science visionary who, alongside John Kemeny at Dartmouth College in 1964, co-invented the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, democratizing computer programming for the entire world.

Hanover, United States

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Tsung-Dao Lee

李政道

China

1926 – 2024 (97 years old)

Chinese-American theoretical physicist who at age 30 became one of the youngest Nobel laureates in history when he and Chen Ning Yang proved the violation of parity conservation in weak nuclear interactions, overthrowing a fundamental tenet of physics.

San Francisco, United States

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Lynn Ann Conway

Lynn Conway

United States

1938 – 2024 (86 years old)

American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights pioneer who co-developed the Mead-Conway VLSI design revolution that enabled modern microchips, and pioneered dynamic instruction scheduling at IBM.

Jackson, United States

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Peter Ware Higgs

Great Britain

1929 – 2024 (94 years old)

British theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, explaining how subatomic particles acquire mass. Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics following its discovery at CERN.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal

Frans de Waal

Netherlands

1948 – 2024 (75 years old)

Dutch primatologist and ethologist whose groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees and bonobos revealed empathy, conflict resolution, fairness, and moral foundations in non-human animals, revolutionizing the understanding of animal cognition.

Atlanta, United States

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Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias

Germany

1933 – 2024 (90 years old)

German-born American physicist and radio astronomer who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation with Robert Wilson in 1964, providing critical empirical confirmation for the Big Bang model of cosmology, for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

San Francisco, United States

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