Necrológicas 2011

Lista de gente que nos dejó en el 2011. Se ira actualizando periódicamente.

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Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970 – April 20, 2011) was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer.
He was born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents who were child refugees after World War II. From his base in New York, Hondros worked in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. His work appeared as the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and the Economist, and on the front pages of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Timothy (Tim) Hetherington (1970 – April 20, 2011) was a British photojournalist.^[1][2] He was best known for his documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011)^[2] was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.

Sidney Lumet ( /luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).

Baruch Samuel "Barry" Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), was an American doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

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David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011)^[1] is an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.

David Viñas (July 28, 1927 – March 10, 2011)^[1] was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.^[1]

Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 1968 – 2 March 2011)^[1] was a Pakistani politician and elected member of the National Assembly from 2008.^[2] He was the first Federal Minister for Minorities^[1] from 2008 until his assassination on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad.^[3] Bhatti, a Roman Catholic, was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the only Christian in the Cabinet.^[4] Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for his killing and called him a blasphemer of Muhammad.


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Harvey A. Dorfman (1935 – February 28, 2011) was an American mental skills coach who worked in education and psychology as a teacher, counselor, coach, and consultant. In 1999, Dorfman became a full-time consultant teaching the skills of sport psychology.


Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952^[1] – 6 February 2011), better known simply as Gary Moore, was a musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best recognized as a blues rock guitarist and singer.

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John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an Oscar winning English film score composer. He was best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' style.

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer. He was particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011)^[1] was a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era."^[2]

 

Dr. Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC (21 April 1926 – 20 January 2011)^[1] was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.

María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician and writer mainly known for her songs and books for children. She was named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires in 1985.

Bill Zeller (1983 - 2011) was an American computer programmer who was best known for creating the MyTunes application until his suicide in 2011. After his death, his suicide note^[1] began circulating widely, bringing the long-term ill effects of child abuse into public discussion.

Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (pronounced /ˈpɒsəlθweɪt/; 7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011),^[1][2] was an English stage, film and television actor.


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