Nobel Prize In Death

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Harry Kroto dead at 76 Won the 1996 chemistry prize http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2016/05/harry-kroto-1939-2016-salesman-of.html

 

Dead at 76. At least he got to see sixty.

 

I'll get my (lab) coat.

 

 

Guardian Obituary. Still nothing from the BBC. I am very cross about this.

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Harry Kroto dead at 76 Won the 1996 chemistry prize http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2016/05/harry-kroto-1939-2016-salesman-of.html

 

Dead at 76. At least he got to see sixty.

 

I'll get my (lab) coat.

 

 

Guardian Obituary. Still nothing from the BBC. I am very cross about this.

 

 

Finally the BBC provide an obit

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Harry Kroto dead at 76 Won the 1996 chemistry prize http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2016/05/harry-kroto-1939-2016-salesman-of.html

...[No word from the mainstream press as yet but...]

he is probably the most recognisable name on the list of Chemistry winners.

And his best mate is one of the biggest club owners in Estonia.

 

 

What? Who?

[YoungWillz 19,067]

Elie Wiesel, Peace Prize winner, dies at 87. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.575072

 

Awaiting qo for the DDP.

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Good Night

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Elie Wiesel, Peace Prize winner, dies at 87. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.575072

 

Awaiting qo for the DDP.

 

Guardian comes in: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/elie-wiesel-nobel-winner-holocaust-survivor-dies

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Report that 1999 Chemistry Laureate Ahmed Zewail has died aged 70: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/760568371133968384

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Report that 1999 Chemistry Laureate Ahmed Zewail has died aged 70: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/760568371133968384

Not that it matters much, but he actually got a BBC obit:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36961788

 

I mean, we had a couple of cases with very late obituaries for Nobel Prize winners whose obits should be a guarantee, in my opinion.

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James Cronin, co-winner of the 1980 Physics prize, has died aged 84. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/aug/26/nobel-laureate-james-cronin-dies-at-84

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Roger Tsien, 2008 Chemistry Laureate, dead at 64. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46930/title/Nobel-Laureate-Roger-Tsien-Dies/

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German Economics nobel laureate Reinhard Selten has died:

http://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/a-1110506.html

 

I had him in my Theme Team last year, so possibly someone for the list of the lost.

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So Selten died on August the 23rd, Roger Tsien on August the 24th and James Cronin on August the 25th. There is definitely a diabolical plan underneath.

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Nobel Prize laureates who will reach, maybe, 85 years old before the end of 2016:

(Age calculated at the beginning of 2016)

 

Peace: RIP?

1973: Henry Kissinger, 92

1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 84

1984: Desmond Tutu, 84

1986: Elie Wiesel, 87

1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 84

1994: Shimon Peres, 92

2002: Jimmy Carter, 91

 

You can take Shimon Peres off the list along with Elie Wiesel

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I updated the list

Nobel Prize laureates who will reach, maybe, 85 years old before the end of 2016:
(Age calculated at the beginning of 2016)

Physics:
1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 89
1957: Chen Ning Yang, 93
1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 86
1972: Leon Cooper, 85
1972: Robert Schrieffer, 84
1973: Leo Esaki, 90
1973: Ivar Giaever, 86
1974: Antony Hewish, 91
1975: Ben Mottelson, 89
1976: Burton Richter, 84
1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 92
1980: James Cronin, 84
1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, 95
1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 88
1988: Leon Lederman, 93
1988: Jack Steinberger, 94
1989: Hans Dehmelt, 93
1990: Richard Edward Taylor, 86
1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 85
1996: David M. Lee, 84
1999: Martinus Veltman, 84
2000: Herbert Kroemer, 87
2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 85
2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 89
2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 84
2003: Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, 87
2005: Roy Glauber, 88
2009: George Elwood Smith, 85
2013: Peter Higgs, 86
2014: George Elwood Smith, 86

Chemistry:
1967: Manfred Eigen, 88
1980: Paul Berg, 89
1982: Aaron Klug, 89
1986: John Charles Polanyi, 86
1990: Elias James Corey, 87
1992: Rudolph Marcus, 92
1994: George Andrew Olah, 88
1997: Paul Delos Boyer, 97
1997: Jens Christian Skou, 97
1998: Walter Kohn, 92
2008: Osamu Shimomura, 87
2010: Akira Suzuki, 85
2013: Martin Karplus, 85

Literature:
1992: Derek Walcott, 85
1993: Toni Morrison, 84
1997: Dario Fo, 89
2002: Imre Kertész, 86
2013: Alice Munro, 84

Peace: RIP?
1973: Henry Kissinger, 92
1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 84
1984: Desmond Tutu, 84
1986: Elie Wiesel, 87
1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 84
1994: Shimon Peres, 92
2002: Jimmy Carter, 91

Medicine:
1962: James Dewey Watson, 87
1977: Roger Guillemin, 91
1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 89
1978: Werner Arber, 86
1978: Hamilton Smith, 84
1981: Torsten Wiesel, 91
1986: Stanley Cohen, 93
1992: Edmond Fischer, 95
2000: Arvid Carlsson, 92
2000: Paul Greengard, 90
2000: Eric Kandel, 86
2002: Sydney Brenner, 88
2007: Oliver Smithies, 90
2015: William C. Campbell, 85
2015: Tu Youyou, 85

Economics:
1972: Kenneth Arrow, 94
1987: Robert Solow, 91
1990: Harry Markowitz, 88
1994: Reinhard Selten, 85
2002: Vernon Smith, 88
2005: Thomas Schelling, 94
2005: Robert Aumann, 85
2012: Lloyd Stowell Shapley, 92

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Yup, here he is: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/middleeast/shimon-peres-obit/

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WTF did Peres ever win a NP for? Can I get one, I have better cred.

SC

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1997 Literature winner Dario Fo dead at 90. Accidental, by all accounts.

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WTF did Peres ever win a NP for? Can I get one, I have better cred.

SC

the 1993 deal that Bill Clinton brokered I think

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1997 Literature winner Dario Fo dead at 90. Accidental, by all accounts.

Surely he dropped over dead when they said Bob Fahkin DYLAN was the Nobel Prize winner in LITERATURE, putting him up there with people who actually wrote things on paper and not storyboards for a living.

SC

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1997 Literature winner Dario Fo dead at 90. Accidental, by all accounts.

Goodbye, horrible man. Fascist and then communist, supporter of working class when he was as rich as a fucking sheikh.

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I have a feeling there used to be a thread for this, but it seems to have been decommissioned. So, here are the currently-still-breathing-and-over-85 (subject to wiki accuracy, of course) Nobel Prize laureates, all handily wiki-linked. Not household names, I grant you, but probably obit-worthy for the more discerning pooler all the same.

Many have been discussed in other threads, but I thought itd be nice to drag them in under one umbrella. Ive probably missed one or two; Im not the most diligent of researchers.

 

Physics: when will they quark it?

Willis Lamb (Canadian Pauls very own CL-S), 94.

Chen Ning Yang, 85.

Charles Townes, 92.

Aage Bohr (son of Nils), 85.

Nicolaas Bloembergen, 87.

Leon Lederman, 85.

Jack Steinberger, 86.

Norman Ramsey, 91.

Hans Dehmelt, 85.

 

Chemistry: soon to be inert?

Frederick Sanger, 89.

John Cornforth, 90.

William Lipscomb, 87.

Herbert Hauptman, 90.

Jerome Karle, 89.

Paul Boyer, 89.

Jens Skou, 89.

William Knowles, 90.

John Fenn, 90.

 

Literature: the final chapter?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89. (7-time DL laureate i.e. someone youve heard of)

Jose Saramago, 85.

Doris Lessing, 88.

 

Only three, but they often receive it later in life, for a body of work.

 

Peace: RIP? (hell, this stuff writes itself)

Norman Borlaug, 93.

Nelson Mandela, 89.

 

Not many, as its often given to organisations or not given at all. That paragon of peace Kissinger doesnt turn 85 till May.

 

Medicine: Nurse, the screens!!

Thomas Weller, 92.

Andrew Huxley (Aldouss half-brother), 90.

Francois Jacob, 87.

Har Khorana, 86.

Christian de Duve, 90.

George Palade, 95.

Rita Levi-Montalcini, 98 (oldest living laureate )

Renato Dulbecco, 93.

Rosalyn Yalow, 86.

Jean Dausset, 91.

Robert Furchgott, 91.

Edwin Krebs, 89.

Joseph Murray, 87.

Baruj Benacerraf, 87.

Don Thomas, 87.

Edmond Fischer, 87.

 

Quite apt that the docs have the most living OAPS. Also, lots more of them, as they seem to work in teams more than other scientists.

 

 

Economics: cashing their final cheque?

Ronald Coase, 97.

Maurice Allais, 96.

Paul Samuelson, 92.

Ken Arrow, 86.

Larry Klein, 87.

James Buchanan, 88.

Douglass North, 87.

Leo Hurwicz, 90.

Tom Schelling, 86.

 

(Acknowledgements: the lost Magere Hein for this and the equally disappeared Life Begins at 5 for this.)

Tom Schelling has died at 95 http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/newsroom/faculty/memory-thomas-schelling

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Nobel Prize laureates older than 85 years old:
(Age calculated at the beginning of 2017)

Physics:
1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 90
1957: Chen Ning Yang, 94
1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 87
1972: Leon Cooper, 86
1972: Robert Schrieffer, 85
1973: Leo Esaki, 91
1973: Ivar Giaever, 87
1974: Antony Hewish, 92
1975: Ben Mottelson, 90
1976: Burton Richter, 85
1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 93
1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, 96
1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 89
1988: Leon Lederman, 94
1988: Jack Steinberger, 95
1989: Hans Dehmelt, 94
1990: Richard Edward Taylor, 87
1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 86
1996: David M. Lee, 85
1999: Martinus Veltman, 85
2000: Herbert Kroemer, 88
2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 86
2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 90
2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 85
2003: Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, 88
2005: Roy Glauber, 89
2009: George Elwood Smith, 86
2013: Peter Higgs, 87
2014: George Elwood Smith, 87

Chemistry:
1967: Manfred Eigen, 89
1980: Paul Berg, 90
1982: Aaron Klug, 90
1986: John Charles Polanyi, 87
1990: Elias James Corey, 88
1992: Rudolph Marcus, 93
1994: George Andrew Olah, 89
1997: Paul Delos Boyer, 98
1997: Jens Christian Skou, 98
2008: Osamu Shimomura, 88
2010: Akira Suzuki, 86
2013: Martin Karplus, 86

Literature:
1992: Derek Walcott, 86
1993: Toni Morrison, 85
2013: Alice Munro, 85

Peace: RIP?
1973: Henry Kissinger, 93
1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 85
1984: Desmond Tutu, 85
1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 85
2002: Jimmy Carter, 92

Medicine:
1962: James Dewey Watson, 88
1977: Roger Guillemin, 92
1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 90
1978: Werner Arber, 87
1978: Hamilton Smith, 85
1981: Torsten Wiesel, 92
1986: Stanley Cohen, 94
1992: Edmond Fischer, 96
2000: Arvid Carlsson, 93
2000: Paul Greengard, 91
2000: Eric Kandel, 87
2002: Sydney Brenner, 89
2007: Oliver Smithies, 91
2015: William C. Campbell, 86
2015: Tu Youyou, 86

Economics:
1972: Kenneth Arrow, 95
1987: Robert Solow, 92
1990: Harry Markowitz, 89
2002: Vernon Smith, 89
2005: Robert Aumann, 86

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Qualifying Obit for Thomas Schelling: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4034540/Nobel-winning-economist-Thomas-Schelling-dies-95.html

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Qualifying Obit for Thomas Schelling: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4034540/Nobel-winning-economist-Thomas-Schelling-dies-95.html

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Qualifying Obit for Thomas Schelling: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4034540/Nobel-winning-economist-Thomas-Schelling-dies-95.html

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