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:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)