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Gustav Andreas Tammann

Germany

c. 1933 – 2019 (86 years old)

Gustav Andreas Tammann was a Swiss astronomer and academic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Berlin, Germany

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Rudolf Raff

United States

c. 1942 – 2019 (77 years old)

Rudolf Albert Raff was an American biologist, and the James H. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Kenneth Hedberg

United States

c. 1921 – 2019 (98 years old)

Kenneth Wayne Hedberg was an American chemist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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David Garman

Great Britain

c. 1923 – 2019 (96 years old)

David Edmund Talbot Garman OBE was a British inventor and businessman who was based in mid-Wales.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Harold Brown

United States

c. 1928 – 2019 (91 years old)

Harold Brown was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Wulf Steinmann

Germany

c. 1931 – 2019 (88 years old)

Wulf Steinmann was a German physicist and former president of LMU Munich.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Berlin, Germany

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Stephen Twinoburyo

Switzerland

c. 1970 – 2019 (49 years old)

Stephen Twinoburyo was a Ugandan scientist, mathematician, lecturer, and entrepreneur. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Stephen William Hawking

Great Britain

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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Ken Seddon

Great Britain

c. 1951 – 2018 (67 years old)

Kenneth Richard Seddon was a chemist specialising in ionic liquids.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Yasuo Tanaka

Japan

c. 1932 – 2018 (86 years old)

Yasuo Tanaka was a Japanese astrophysicist and a member of the Japan Academy. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Tokyo, Japan

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Ishfaq Ahmad Khan

Switzerland

c. 1931 – 2018 (87 years old)

Ishfaq Ahmad SI, HI, NI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Arno Motulsky

United States

c. 1924 – 2018 (94 years old)

Arno Gunther Motulsky was a professor of medical genetics and genome sciences at the University of Washington. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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John Bindernagel

Canada

c. 1942 – 2018 (76 years old)

John Albert Bindernagel was a wildlife biologist who sought evidence for Sasquatch since 1963.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Ottawa, Canada

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Pål Spilling

Norway

c. 1935 – 2018 (83 years old)

Pål Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller in Norway.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Oslo, Norway

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Rick Jolly

Great Britain

c. 1947 – 2018 (71 years old)

Surgeon-Captain Richard Tadeusz Jolly OBE was a Royal Navy medical officer who served in the 1982 Falklands War and was later decorated by both the British and Argentine governments for his distinguished conduct during the conflict. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Jean-Louis Koszul

France

c. 1921 – 2018 (97 years old)

Jean-Louis Koszul was a French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Yuan Chengye

China

c. 1925 – 2018 (93 years old)

Yuan Chengye was a Chinese organic chemist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Beijing, China

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Robert Minlos

Russia

c. 1932 – 2018 (86 years old)

Robert Adol'fovich Minlos was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has made important contributions to probability theory and mathematical physics. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Moscow, Russia

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