Famous people died in October - page 3

Bertram Brockhouse was a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist who is remembered for his development of the neutron-scattering technique

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian film director, best known for the film 'La battaglia di Algeri'

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician who won a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics

Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917

Charles J Pedersen was an American chemist who discovered the chemical compound, crown ethers

Jeanne Eagels was a talented American actress who jumped to fame during the early 1900s

Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who jointly received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1956

Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time

Miriam Hopkins was an American theatre, television and film actress who ranked among top screen divas of the 1930s