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ScienceWally Funk
1939 – 2026 · Aircraft pilot, Inspector, Flight instructor
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ScienceAda Yonath
1939 – 2026 · Molecular biologist, Chemist, University teacher
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ScienceMarie Curie
1867 – 1934 · Physicist and chemist
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
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ScienceAlbert Einstein
1879 – 1955 · Theoretical physicist
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
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ScienceRichard E. Stearns
1936 – 2026 · Computer scientist, mathematician, complexity theorist, professor, department chair, game theorist
“Co-founder of computational complexity who made hardness a science.”
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ScienceRachel Naomi Remen, MD
1938 – 2026 · Physician (pediatrician / pediatric endocrinology background); psycho-oncology clinician; medical educator; author; integrative / relationship-centered care pioneer
“Physician-patient who taught medicine to listen: curing is not the same as healing.”
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ScienceDon Wilhelms
1930 – 2026 · USGS planetary and lunar geologist; Apollo astronaut geology trainer; lunar geologic mapper; author; Mariner 9 television experiment co-investigator (geology team)
“Lunar mapper who taught Apollo crews to read the Moon.”
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ScienceDavid Baltimore
1938 – 2025 · Molecular biologist, virologist, immunologist, university administrator, science-policy leader, mentor
“Nobel virologist who proved RNA can make DNA and remade biology.”
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ScienceMary Tsingou
1928 – 2026 · Physicist; mathematician; scientific computing pioneer; computer programmer
“Coded the experiment that launched nonlinear science; later given her name in FPUT.”
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ScienceKrishna AchutaRao
† 2026 · Climate scientist; Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi; IPCC WG-I lead author; former Dean (Faculty), IIT Delhi
“Climate attribution scientist who linked ocean warming and India's extremes to human influence.”
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ScienceToyohiro Akiyama
1942 – 2026 · Television journalist (TBS); research cosmonaut; organic farmer; university professor
“First Japanese in space. Journalist on Mir. Farmer after the flight.”
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ScienceHideki Shirakawa
1936 – 2026 · Chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba; co-discoverer of conductive polymers; 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“The chemist who made plastic conduct electricity and opened a new era of materials.”
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ScienceJane Goodall
1934 – 2025 · Primatologist and conservationist
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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ScienceCarl Sagan
1934 – 1996 · Astronomer and author
“We are made of star stuff.”
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ScienceRosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958 · Chemist and X-ray crystallographer
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
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ScienceCharles Darwin
1809 – 1882 · Naturalist
“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
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ScienceIsaac Newton
1643 – 1727 · Mathematician and physicist
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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ScienceNikola Tesla
1856 – 1943 · Inventor and electrical engineer
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
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ScienceAlan Turing
1912 – 1954 · Mathematician and computer scientist
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
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ScienceStephen Hawking
1942 – 2018 · Theoretical physicist
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
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