Deaths
- March 15 – Benjamin Spock (b. 1903), pediatrician, writer.
- May 31 – Michio Suzuki (b. 1926), mathematician.
- July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry (b. 1949), also known as Dan Bunten, software developer.
- July 21 – Alan Shepard (b. 1923), astronaut.
- August 4 – Yuri Artyukhin (b. 1930), cosmonaut.
- August 26 – Frederick Reines (b. 1918), physicist, Nobel laureate.
- December 17 – Claudia Benton (b. c.1959), pediatric neurologist.
- December 18 – Lev Demin (b. 1926), cosmonaut.
- December 20 – Sir Alan Hodgkin (b. 1914), physiologist, Nobel laureate.
Read more about this topic: 1998 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)