37. 2017
George A. Olah dies on March 8, 2017. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist transformed carbocation chemistry through superacid research, with major implications for petroleum processing and synthetic organic chemistry.
38. 2024
Herbert Kroemer dies on March 8, 2024. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist helped develop semiconductor heterostructures and band-gap engineering, advances fundamental to modern electronics, lasers, and optoelectronic devices.