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Portrait of Chen-ning Yang (1922–2025) – memorial page

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Chen-ning Yang

10/01/1922 – 10/18/2025

103 years

Chinese physicist

Beijing
2
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Portrait of John Gurdon (1933–2025) – memorial page

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John Gurdon

10/02/1933 – 10/07/2025

92 years

British developmental biologist

United Kingdom
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Portrait of George F. Smoot (1945–2025) – memorial page

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George F. Smoot

02/20/1945 – 09/18/2025

80 years

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

7th arrondissement of Paris
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Portrait of David Baltimore (1938–2025) – memorial page

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David Baltimore

03/07/1938 – 09/06/2025

87 years

American biologist and Nobel laureate

Woods Hole
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DC
Portrait of Darleane C. Hoffman (1926–2025) – memorial page

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Darleane C. Hoffman

11/08/1926 – 09/04/2025

98 years

American nuclear chemist

Menlo Park
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Portrait of Rinchen Barsbold (1935–2025) – memorial page

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Rinchen Barsbold

12/21/1935 – 08/28/2025

89 years

Mongolian paleontologist and geologist

Ulaanbaatar
1
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Portrait of Rainer Weiss (1932–2025) – memorial page

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Rainer Weiss

09/29/1932 – 08/25/2025

92 years

American physicist

Cambridge
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Portrait of Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai (1940–2025) – memorial page

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Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

07/10/1940 – 07/29/2025

85 years

British economist and politician (born 1940)

London
1
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Portrait of Sulochana Gadgil (1944–2025) – memorial page

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Sulochana Gadgil

06/07/1944 – 07/24/2025

81 years

Indian meteorologist

Bengaluru
21
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Portrait of Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937–2025) – memorial page

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Grace Oladunni Taylor

04/24/1937 – 07/08/2025

88 years

Nigerian biochemist

Effon-Alaiye
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Portrait of Ivar Giæver (1929–2025) – memorial page

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Ivar Giæver

04/05/1929 – 06/20/2025

96 years

Norwegian-American physicist

Schenectady
1
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Portrait of Fereydoon Abbasi (1958–2025) – memorial page

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Fereydoon Abbasi

07/11/1958 – 06/13/2025

66 years

Iranian nuclear scientist and politician

Tehran
2
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Portrait of Stanley Fischer (1943–2025) – memorial page

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Stanley Fischer

10/15/1943 – 05/31/2025

81 years

Israeli-American economist

Lexington
1
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Portrait of George E. Smith (1930–2025) – memorial page

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George E. Smith

05/10/1930 – 05/28/2025

95 years

Nobel prize winning American physicist

Barnegat
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Robert Jarvik

05/11/1946 – 05/26/2025

79 years

American inventor, creator of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart

New York City
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Portrait of Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938–2025) – memorial page

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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

07/19/1938 – 05/20/2025

86 years

Indian astrophysicist and writer

Pune
22
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Portrait of Peter Lax (1926–2025) – memorial page

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Peter Lax

05/01/1926 – 05/16/2025

99 years

American mathematician of Hungarian origin

Manhattan
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Portrait of Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945–2025) – memorial page

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Svetlana Gerasimenko

02/23/1945 – 04/08/2025

80 years

Ukrainian soviet and Tajik astronomer

Baryshivska Hromada
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HK
Portrait of Hagen Kleinert (1941–2025) – memorial page

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Hagen Kleinert

06/15/1941 – 03/07/2025

83 years

German physicist

Berlin
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Portrait of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025) – memorial page

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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

12/29/1923 – 02/11/2025

101 years

French mathematician and physicist

Mérignac
3
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Portrait of Eva Klein (1925–2025) – memorial page

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Eva Klein

01/22/1925 – 01/19/2025

99 years

Hungarian-Swedish biologist

Lidingö
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Portrait of Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024) – memorial page

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Fraser Stoddart

05/24/1942 – 12/30/2024

82 years

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Melbourne
1
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Portrait of Martin Karplus (1930–2024) – memorial page

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Martin Karplus

03/15/1930 – 12/28/2024

94 years

Austrian-born American theoretical chemist

Cambridge
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Portrait of Jacques Roubaud (1932–2024) – memorial page

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Jacques Roubaud

12/05/1932 – 12/05/2024

92 years

French mathematician

10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
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