Notable Deaths 2020: Science and Technology

Doctor who helped people quit anxiety drugs

First Black female meteorologist

Inventor of the laser printer

“One of the great mathematicians”

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist

Leader of Nobel-winning climate agency

Pioneer of personal computing

Mathematician who broke barriers at NASA

Math genius turned technological visionary

Nobel laureate in physics

Pioneering allergist

Astronomer who blazed trails on Earth

Inventor of the pulse oximeter

Pediatrician pinpointed a mysterious disease

Helped establish H.I.V. as the cause of AIDS

Helped build the computer mouse

Paved way for lightning-fast apps of today