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Jacques Tits
Sciences & Discovery
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Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1930 โ€“ 2021 (91 years old)

Distinguished Belgian-French mathematician and Collรจge de France professor awarded the 2008 Abel Prize alongside John G. Thompson for creating the theory of "buildings" and BN-pairs, revolutionizing geometric group theory and the classification of finite simple groups.

Paris, France
Edmond Henri Fischer
Sciences & Discovery
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Edmond Henri Fischer

Edmond H. Fischer
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1920 โ€“ 2021 (101 years old)

Swiss-American centenarian biochemist awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation, the universal biological "on-off switch" regulating cell growth, metabolism, and targeted cancer therapies.

Seattle, Washington, United States
Toshihide Maskawa
Sciences & Discovery
23
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Toshihide Maskawa

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1940 โ€“ 2021 (81 years old)

Japanese theoretical physicist awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for formulating the Cabibboโ€“Kobayashiโ€“Maskawa (CKM) matrix with Makoto Kobayashi in 1973, which predicted the existence of three generations of quarks to explain CP violation.

Kyoto, Japan
Ei-ichi Negishi
Sciences & Discovery
23
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Ei-ichi Negishi

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1935 โ€“ 2021 (85 years old)

Distinguished Japanese chemist and Purdue University professor who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the Negishi coupling, a palladium-catalyzed reaction enabling the synthesis of complex molecules in medicine and electronics.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Richard Robert Ernst
Sciences & Discovery
24
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Richard Robert Ernst

Richard R. Ernst
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
1933 โ€“ 2021 (87 years old)

Swiss physical chemist and ETH Zurich professor who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing Fourier transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (FT-NMR) spectroscopy and multi-dimensional NMR, the foundational technology behind medical MRI.

Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Isamu Akasaki
Sciences & Discovery
24
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Isamu Akasaki

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1929 โ€“ 2021 (92 years old)

Japanese semiconductor physicist awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using gallium nitride, enabling energy-saving white LED lighting and modern smartphone screens.

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Bernard Lown
Sciences & Discovery
22
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Bernard Lown

Bernard Lown
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania
1921 โ€“ 2021 (99 years old)

Centenarian American cardiologist and inventor of the direct-current defibrillator and coronary care unit who saved millions of lives from cardiac arrest, and co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winning the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

Sharon, Massachusetts, United States
Paul Jozef Crutzen
Sciences & Discovery
22
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Paul Jozef Crutzen

Paul Crutzen
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
1933 โ€“ 2021 (87 years old)

Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (1995) who proved that nitrogen oxides accelerate ozone layer depletion, proposed the "nuclear winter" theory, and popularized the term "Anthropocene" for humanity's geological epoch.

Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
James Barber
Sciences & Discovery
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James Barber

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
c. 1941 โ€“ 2020 (79 years old)

James Barber was a British senior research investigator and emeritus Ernst Chain professor of biochemistry at Imperial College London, Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin and Visiting Canon Professor to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom
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