Deaths
- February 28 - Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920), Nobel laureate in physics.
- May 1 - Kikuo Takano (b. 1927), poet and mathematician.
- May 14 - Bruce Merrifield (b. 1921), Nobel laureate in chemistry (1984) for developing a rapid, automated system for making peptides.
- May 31 - Raymond Davis Jr. (b. 1914), Nobel laureate in physics (2002) for pioneering the detection of cosmic neutrinos.
- August 9 - James Van Allen (b. 1914), space scientist.
Read more about this topic: 2006 In Science
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