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Steven Weinberg (1933–2021), Nobel Prize-winning physicist

Steven Weinberg was a theoretical physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with elementary particles.Weinberg’s Nobel Prize was awarded for his work in studying the tiny particles that make up all matter. He shared the prize with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow, though the three scientists worked separately.

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Yuan Longping (1930–2021), created hybrid rice to ease famine

Yuan Longping was a Chinese plant scientist who created high-yield hybrid rice that helped alleviate famine in Asia and Africa.In the 1960s, as China was suffering a great famine, Yuan began working to develop a hybrid rice that would feed more people via higher yields. He made a key breakthrough that allowed hybrid rice to reproduce, making it widely available.

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Spencer Silver (1941–2021), co-inventor of Post-it Notes

Spencer Silver was a chemist who invented the adhesive used in Post-it Notes.Silver worked at 3M for 30 years, from 1966 until his retirement in 1996, but it was early in his career there that he developed his most memorable invention. In 1968, Silver was working to create a powerful adhesive to be used in building airplanes.

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Charles Geschke (1939–2021), co-founder of Adobe

Charles Geschke was the co-founder of Adobe, the software giant that created Photoshop and PDFs.Geschke was working at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s when he began developing the computer language Interpress, which was intended to provide high quality printing. When Xerox wasn’t interested in moving forward with Interpress, Geschke and his colleague John Warnock left the company and founded Adobe Inc.

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Isamu Akasaki (1929–2021), inventor who made LED light widely accessible

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist who was part of the Nobel Prize-winning team that developed blue LED light, a breakthrough that led to the widespread use of LED today.Early LEDs emitted red light. They were useful in technological applications, but they only provided a very small amount of light.

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Paul Crutzen (1933–2021), Nobel laureate who warned of ozone depletion

Paul Crutzen was a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his study of the damaged ozone layer.Crutzen’s early research helped us understand the makeup of the ozone layer. He later linked the ongoing thinning of this layer to chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, used in aerosol containers, refrigerators, and air conditioners.

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Andrew Brooks (1969–2021), scientist who developed first COVID-19 spit test

Andrew Brooks was a research professor at Rutgers University and CEO of Infinity Biologix, who developed the first FDA-approved rapid saliva test for COVID-19.Brooks joined the faculty at Rutgers in 2004, and in 2009, he began working at the university’s Cell and DNA Repository. The company later went private, renamed Infinity Biologix, with Brooks at its helm.

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Narinder Kapany (1926–2020), physicist who co-invented fiber optics

Narinder Kapany was a physicist known as the “father of fiber optics,” who was one of the inventors of fiber optics technology.Kapany, a native of India, was determined from a young age to learn how to bend light. His quest took him to graduate school in London, where he began working with Professor Harold Hopkins on his project attempting to transmit light through flexible glass fibers.

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Timothy Ray Brown (1966 – 2020), first person cured of HIV infection

Timothy Ray Brown was known as the “Berlin patient,” the first person who was known to have been cured of HIV infection.Brown was working as a translator in Berlin in the 1990s when he was diagnosed with HIV. He took protease inhibitors, allowing him to have a near normal life expectancy, but in 2006, he was also diagnosed with leukemia.

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Bob Gore (1937 – 2020), inventor of Gore-Tex

Robert W. “Bob” Gore was the former president and chairman of W.L.

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Joan Feynman (1927 – 2020), astrophysicist who explained the aurora borealis

Joan Feynman was a pioneering astrophysicist who discovered the science behind the aurora borealis and aurora australis.Feynman was the younger sister of Nobel Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman. As her brother’s love for science developed, Feynman caught the bug as well, though her mother discouraged her by telling her, “Women’s brains can’t do science.” Feynman persevered, encouraged by her brother, who taught her science and paid her to be his lab assistant when he was 14 and she was just 5 years old.

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William English (1929 – 2020), engineer who built the first computer mouse

William English was a computer engineer who built the first computer mouse.English worked alongside Douglas Engelbart (1925 – 2013), the inventor of the computer mouse, to bring Engelbart’s visionary ideas to life. It was English’s design and construction that made Engelbart’s concept into a reality, one that allowed computer users to control their machines without keyboards or punch cards for the first time.

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Flossie Wong-Staal (1946 – 2020), pioneering HIV researcher

Flossie Wong-Staal was a molecular virologist whose research on HIV was crucial in the development of blood tests to detect the virus.A native of Hong Kong, Wong-Staal immigrated to the U.S. as a student and later began working with the National Institutes of Health.

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Grant Imahara (1970 – 2020), host of “MythBusters,” “White Rabbit Project”

Grant Imahara was an electrical engineer and roboticist who was best known for hosting “MythBusters” and “White Rabbit Project.”This is a breaking news story.

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William Dement (1928 – 2020), sleep doctor who coined the term “REM”

Dr. William Dement was a scientist who developed the field of sleep research and coined the term “REM,” or rapid eye movement, to describe the stage of sleep when dreaming takes place.When Dement began researching sleep in the 1950s, it was not well understood, and few scientists gave it much thought. But Dement’s groundbreaking research showed just how important sleep is and how drastically we can be affected by drowsiness as we’re driving, working, or studying.

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Dr. Aaron Beck (1921–2021), father of cognitive therapy

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