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
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)