Deaths
- January 16 - Robert J. Van de Graaff (born 1901), American physicist.
- January 19 - Casimir Funk (born 1884), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin.
- January 27 - Apollo 1 crew
- Edward White (born 1930)
- Gus Grissom (born 1926)
- Roger Chaffee (born 1935)
- February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer (born 1904), American physicist.
- March 27 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (born 1890), Czech chemist.
- April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller (born 1890), American geneticist.
- April 24 - Vladimir Komarov (born 1927), cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.
- May 5 - Owen Thomas Jones (born 1878), Welsh geologist
Read more about this topic: 1967 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)