Notable Deaths 2023: Science and Technology

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