2005 in Science - Deaths

Deaths

• February 3 – Ernst Mayr (b. 1904), evolutionary biologist.
• February 6 – Hubert Curien (b. 1924), former President of CERN and first chairman of ESA.
• February 10 – D. Allan Bromley (b. 1926), director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.
• March 6 – Hans Bethe (b. 1906), Nobelaureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars.
• June 20 – Jack Kilby (b. 1923), Nobelaureate in Physics (2000) for his work on integrated circuits.
• June 20 – Charles David Keeling (b. 1928), first to make frequent measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, plotted on the Keeling Curve.
• August 21 – Robert Moog (b. 1934), pioneer of electronic music.
• August 31 – Sir Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), physicist.
• October 28 – Richard Smalley (b. 1943), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.
• November 16 – Henry Taube (b. 1915), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1983) for his work in the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.