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Wally Funk

1939 – 2026 · Aircraft pilot, Inspector, Flight instructor

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Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955 · Theoretical physicist

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Richard 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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Rachel 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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Don 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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