Notable Deaths 2023: Science and Technology
Engineer who widened Google’s reach
An inventor of the modern medical blood bag
Record-breaking deep sea explorer
Astronaut who led first orbit of the moon
Psychedelics researcher who changed minds
Medical force in South Africa’s H.I.V. fight
Scientist who helped conquer famine in India
Influential theorist of the structure of memory
Scientist behind Dolly the cloned sheep
Nobelist who saw how a gas can aid the heart
Scientist who tried to give A.I. common sense
Inventor of the PDF
Neuroscientist who gave feeling to prosthetic limbs
Theorist of plate tectonics
Once the “most wanted computer outlaw”
Geneticist who discovered how DNA repairs itself
Public face of the war on breast cancer
Nobelist who created the lithium-ion battery
“Case 1” in the study of autism
Influential biologist who recorded whale serenades
Nobelist who found the cause of cervical cancer
Inventor of a tool for mapping Earth from space
Intel co-founder behind Moore’s Law
“Father of cannabis research”
Computer scientist who helped make the internet
Biochemist who launched genetic engineering
Psychologist who fought homophobia
Nobel-winning innovator in ceramic superconductors
Astronaut who helped pave the way to the moon