Obituary: Swiss chemist who invented LSD, the mind-bending drug that 'turned on' the 60s
Obituary: Eminent historian of mathematics and expert on Isaac Newton
Obituary: Key player in hospital equipment and healthcare advances
Obituary: Before and during the second world war, the chemist and photographic scientist researched photographic emulsion
Obituary: Spirited as a child, he developed ALD and became the inspiration behind Lorenzo's oil
Obituary: Nobel-prizewinning scientist keen for soil to be treated as a sustainable resource
Obituary: Nasa designer, he was recruited by Kubrick to create the look of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Obituary: Computer pioneer who invented systems engineering and revolutionised J Lyons
Obituary: Pioneering surgeon whose career spanned 70 years, he was one of the creators of cardiovascular surgery
Obituary: The academic whose Last Lecture became an inspirational internet phenomenon
Obituary: Pioneer in the nuclear fusion technology intended to produce endless green energy
Obituary: Explorer whose polar data illuminated the climate-change debate
An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
Obituary: Archaeologist and key player in Heyerdahl's Easter Island adventure
