Famous people died in February - page 6

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-born British electrical engineer and physicist, best known for inventing holography

HungarianJune 5, 1900138 views

Neville Cardus

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus was an English author and music critic

BritishApril 3, 1888113 views

Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999) was a leading American physicist

Otto Wallach

Otto Wallach was a German chemist who won the 1910 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds

GermanMarch 27, 1847133 views

Nellie Melba

Dame Nellie Melba was a world-famous Australian opera soprano, best remembered for her beautiful singing and powerful stage presence

AustralianMay 19, 1861152 views

J. Hans D. Jensen

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist and a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics

GermanJune 25, 1907120 views

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was an eminent British novelist and journalist

BritishMay 7, 1940136 views

Henri Moissan

Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan was a French Chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936

FrenchSeptember 28, 1852142 views

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a famous American illustrator

AmericanAugust 6, 1928246 views

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist and a joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

AmericanJune 28, 1906116 views