National Medal of Science

Memorial

Jack Steinberger

05/25/1921 – 12/12/2020

99 years

German-American physicist, Nobel laureate

Geneva

Memorial

Robert Byron Bird

02/05/1924 – 11/13/2020

96 years

Memorial

Eli Ruckenstein

08/13/1925 – 09/30/2020

95 years

Memorial

Bernie Alder

09/09/1925 – 09/07/2020

94 years

Memorial

Paul Marks

08/16/1926 – 04/28/2020

93 years

Memorial

Margaret Burbidge

08/12/1919 – 04/05/2020

100 years

British-born American astronomer

San Francisco

Memorial

Philip W. Anderson

12/13/1923 – 03/29/2020

96 years

American physicist

Princeton

Memorial

Stanley Cohen

11/17/1922 – 02/05/2020

97 years

American biochemist

Nashville

Memorial

Frank Press

12/04/1924 – 01/29/2020

95 years

Chapel Hill

Memorial

Louis Nirenberg

02/28/1925 – 01/26/2020

94 years

American mathematician of Canadian origin

New York City

Memorial

Yuan-Cheng Fung

09/15/1919 – 12/15/2019

100 years

Jacobs Medical Center

Memorial

John Robert Schrieffer

05/31/1931 – 07/27/2019

88 years

American physicist

Tallahassee

Memorial

Paul Greengard

12/11/1925 – 04/13/2019

93 years

American neuroscientist

Memorial

Wallace Smith Broecker

11/29/1931 – 02/18/2019

87 years

Memorial

Walter Munk

10/19/1917 – 02/08/2019

101 years

American oceanographer

La Jolla

Memorial

Elias M. Stein

01/13/1931 – 12/23/2018

87 years

American mathematician

Somerville

Memorial

Riccardo Giacconi

10/06/1931 – 12/09/2018

87 years

Italian-American astrophysicist

San Diego

Memorial

Leon M. Lederman

07/15/1922 – 10/03/2018

96 years

American mathematician and physicist

Rexburg

Memorial

Burton Richter

03/22/1931 – 07/18/2018

87 years

American physicist

Palo Alto

Memorial

Stanley Falkow

01/01/1934 – 05/05/2018

84 years

Portola Valley

Memorial

Jerrold Meinwald

01/16/1927 – 04/23/2018

91 years

Ithaca

Memorial

Charles Yanofsky

04/17/1925 – 03/16/2018

92 years

Memorial

Anne Treisman

02/27/1935 – 02/09/2018

82 years

English psychologist