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Niklaus Emil Wirth
Sciences & Discovery
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Niklaus Emil Wirth

Niklaus Wirth
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
1934 โ€“ 2024 (89 years old)

Swiss computer science pioneer and 1984 ACM Turing Award laureate who designed landmark programming languages including Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, and formulated Wirth's law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Merton Solow
Sciences & Discovery
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Robert Merton Solow

Robert Solow
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1924 โ€“ 2023 (99 years old)

American economist awarded the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for creating the Solow-Swan neoclassical growth model, which proved that technological progressโ€”rather than capital accumulationโ€”drives long-term economic growth.

Cambridge, United States
Saleemul Huq
Sciences & Discovery
22
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Saleemul Huq

เฆธเง‡เฆฒเฆฟเฆฎเงเฆฒ เฆนเฆ•
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan
1952 โ€“ 2023 (71 years old)

Bangladeshi-British climate scientist, IPCC lead author, and global advocate for climate justice who spearheaded the decades-long diplomatic crusade that established the UN "Loss and Damage" fund at COP27.

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Sciences & Discovery
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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao

เฐ•เฐฒเฑเฐฏเฐ‚เฐชเฑ‚เฐกเฐฟ เฐฐเฐพเฐงเฐพเฐ•เฑƒเฐทเฑเฐฃ เฐฐเฐพเฐตเฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1920 โ€“ 2023 (102 years old)

Centenarian Indian-American mathematician and statistician whose monumental discoveries in his twentiesโ€”including the Cramรฉr-Rao bound, the Rao-Blackwell theorem, and Rao's score testโ€”revolutionized modern statistics, machine learning, and econometrics.

Buffalo, United States
Gordon Earle Moore
Sciences & Discovery
23
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Gordon Earle Moore

Gordon Moore
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1929 โ€“ 2023 (94 years old)

American engineer, entrepreneur, and Intel co-founder who formulated "Moore's Law"โ€”predicting that the number of transistors on a microchip would double roughly every two yearsโ€”which governed the global digital technology revolution for six decades.

Waimea, United States
Paul Berg
Sciences & Discovery
24
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Paul Berg

Paul Berg
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1926 โ€“ 2023 (96 years old)

American biochemist who constructed the world's first recombinant DNA molecule in 1972, founding modern genetic engineering, and subsequently convened the landmark 1975 Asilomar Conference on biological safety.

Stanford, United States
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov
Sciences & Discovery
32
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Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov

ะ’ะฐะปะตั€ะธะน ะ’ะปะฐะดะธะผะธั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะŸะพะปัะบะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Soviet Union
1942 โ€“ 2022 (80 years old)

Russian cosmonaut and aerospace physician who set the unbroken world record for the longest continuous single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for 437 days and 18 hours (1994โ€“1995).

Moscow, Russia
James Ephraim Lovelock
Sciences & Discovery
23
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James Ephraim Lovelock

James Lovelock
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1919 โ€“ 2022 (103 years old)

Centenarian British independent biophysicist, inventor, and environmental thinker who formulated the revolutionary "Gaia hypothesis"โ€”proposing that Earth functions as a self-regulating, living superorganismโ€”and invented the electron capture detector.

Abbotsbury, United Kingdom
Sidney Altman
Sciences & Discovery
27
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Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1939 โ€“ 2022 (82 years old)

Canadian-American molecular biologist and Yale University Sterling Professor awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the catalytic properties of RNA (ribozymes), upending the dogma that only proteins could act as biological enzymes.

Rockleigh, New Jersey, United States
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