Notable Deaths 2023: Science and Technology
Luiz Barroso, 59
Engineer who widened Google’s reach
William P. Murphy Jr., 100
An inventor of the modern medical blood bag
Don Walsh, 92
Record-breaking deep sea explorer
Frank Borman, 95
Astronaut who led first orbit of the moon
Roland Griffiths, 77
Psychedelics researcher who changed minds
Hoosen Coovadia, 83
Medical force in South Africa’s H.I.V. fight
M.S. Swaminathan, 98
Scientist who helped conquer famine in India
Endel Tulving, 96
Influential theorist of the structure of memory
Ian Wilmut, 79
Scientist behind Dolly the cloned sheep
Ferid Murad, 86
Nobelist who saw how a gas can aid the heart
Douglas Lenat, 72
Scientist who tried to give A.I. common sense
John Warnock, 82
Inventor of the PDF
Sliman Bensmaia, 49
Neuroscientist who gave feeling to prosthetic limbs
W. Jason Morgan, 87
Theorist of plate tectonics
Kevin Mitnick, 59
Once the “most wanted computer outlaw”
Evelyn M. Witkin, 102
Geneticist who discovered how DNA repairs itself
Dr. Susan Love, 75
Public face of the war on breast cancer
John B. Goodenough, 100
Nobelist who created the lithium-ion battery
Donald Triplett, 89
“Case 1” in the study of autism
Roger S. Payne, 88
Influential biologist who recorded whale serenades
Harald zur Hausen, 87
Nobelist who found the cause of cervical cancer
Virginia Norwood, 96
Inventor of a tool for mapping Earth from space
Gordon E. Moore, 94
Intel co-founder behind Moore’s Law
Raphael Mechoulam, 92
“Father of cannabis research”
William A. Wulf, 83
Computer scientist who helped make the internet
Paul Berg, 96
Biochemist who launched genetic engineering
Charles Silverstein, 87
Psychologist who fought homophobia
K. Alex Müller, 95
Nobel-winning innovator in ceramic superconductors
Walter Cunningham, 90
Astronaut who helped pave the way to the moon
