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Bob Gore, 83 (1937 - 2020)
Robert W. "Bob" Gore was the former president and chairman of W.L. Gore & Associates, best known for inventing Gore-Tex fabric. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Shere Hite, 77 (1942 - 2020)
Shere Hite was a sex educator and feminist who issued the groundbreaking Hite Reports that explored human sexuality and focused on women's experiences. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Arnold Spielberg (2020)
Arnold Spielberg was the father of director Steven Spielberg and a computer pioneer whose work was instrumental in the development of personal computers. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Frances Allen (2020)
Frances Allen was a pioneering computer scientist who was the first woman to win a Turing award. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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William English, 91 (1929 - 2020)
William English was a computer engineer who built the first computer mouse. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Joan Feynman, 93 (1927 - 2020)
Joan Feynman was a pioneering astrophysicist who discovered the science behind the aurora borealis and aurora australis. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Flossie Wong-Staal, 73 (1946 - 2020)
Flossie Wong-Staal was a molecular virologist whose research on HIV was crucial in the development of blood tests to detect the virus. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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William Dement, 91 (1928 - 2020)
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. For full...
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Floyd Zaiger (2020)
Floyd Zaiger was a renowned fruit breeder who developed many new varieties of fruit including the Pluot. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Bruce Baker, 77 (1943 - 2020)
Bruce Baker was the creator of Minspeak, a communication system that allows people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy or ALS to communicate verbally. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy...
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Takuo Aoyagi, 84 (1936 - 2020)
Takuo Aoyagi was a Japanese engineer who developed technology that made the modern pulse oximeter possible, allowing us to measure the level of oxygen in the blood. For full obituary and coverage...
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John Houghton (2020)
John Houghton was a renowned climate scientist who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Margaret Burbidge, 100 (2020)
Margaret Burbidge was an influential astronomer known as "Lady Stardust," who was the first woman to serve as director of the Royal Observatory in England. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy...
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Katherine Johnson, 101 (1918 - 2020)
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician who calculated orbital mechanics for the first crewed spaceflights for NASA. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Larry Tesler, 74 (1945 - 2020)
Larry Tesler was a computer scientist whose achievements included developing the cut, copy, and paste technology that's now an integral part of using our devices. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Gary Starkweather, 81 (1938 - 2019)
Gary Starkweather was an engineer and inventor best known for designing the first laser printer. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Grant Thompson, 38 (1980 - 2019)
Grant Thompson was a YouTube star known as the King of Random, whose science experiment videos attracted millions of viewers. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Chris Kraft, 95 (1924 - 2019)
Chris Kraft was NASA's visionary first flight director, who guided astronauts as they orbited Earth and landed on the Moon. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Fernando Corbato, 93 (1926 - 2019)
Fernando Corbato was a computer scientist who was a pioneer of time-sharing operating systems and introduced the first computer password as part of that work. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Mandla Maseko, 30 (2019)
Mandla Maseko, the South African Air Force member who was poised to become the first black African in space, died Saturday, July 6, 2019, in a motorbike accident. He was 30. For full obituary and...
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Jerry Merryman, 86 (2019)
Jerry Merryman was one of the inventors of the revolutionary pocket calculator. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Tristan O'Tierney, 35 (1983 - 2019)
Tristan O'Tierney was the co-founder of Square, the mobile payment app that allows small businesspeople to accept credit cards via their smartphones or tablets. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Paul Allen, 65 (1953 - 2018)
Paul Allen (1953 – 2018) co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates. The duo started Microsoft in 1975. When IBM contracted Microsoft to provide the operating system for their...
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Constance Adams, 53 (2018)
Space architect Constance Adams, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, has died from cancer at the age of 53, according to National Geographic Magazine. For full obituary from Legacy.com, click...
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Koko the Gorilla, 46 (1971 - 2018)
If ever there was a living being who inspired a lot of people to think more of the inner lives of animals, it was Koko, the gorilla who used sign language. She died in her sleep Tuesday, June 19,...
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Alan Bean, 86 (1932 - 2018)
Alan Bean, the NASA astronaut who became the fourth person to walk on the moon, died Saturday, May 26, 2018, in Houston after a short illness, according to the Associated Press. He was 86. For full...
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Stephen Hawking, 76 (1942 - 2018)
Stephen Hawking, one of the world's best-known scientists who brought theoretical physics to the general public with his 1988 best-seller, "A Brief History of Time," died Wednesday, March 14, 2018,...
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Trevor Baylis, 80 (1937 - 2018)
Trevor Baylis, the British inventor of the wind-up radio who helped foster the spread of information throughout poor and remote communities, died Monday, March 5, 2018, according to The Associated...
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John Young, 87 (1930 - 2018)
Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com,...
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Bruce McCandless, 80 (1937 - 2017)
Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to fly untethered in space, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 80. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
