Samuel Noah Kramer — Colleagues
Barack Obama
1961
· Age 64
Alive
Joe Biden
1942
· Age 83
Alive
Benjamin Franklin
1706
– 1790
· Age 84
Deceased
Bertrand Russell
1872
– 1970
· Age 97
Deceased
Enrico Fermi
1901
– 1954
· Age 53
Deceased
T. S. Eliot
1888
– 1965
· Age 76
Deceased
Milton Friedman
1912
– 2006
· Age 94
Deceased
Hannah Arendt
1906
– 1975
· Age 69
Deceased
Saul Bellow
1915
– 2005
· Age 89
Deceased
Kurt Vonnegut
1922
– 2007
· Age 84
Deceased
J. M. Coetzee
1940
· Age 86
Alive
Friedrich Hayek
1899
– 1992
· Age 92
Deceased
John Dewey
1859
– 1952
· Age 92
Deceased
Albert A. Michelson
1852
– 1931
· Age 78
Deceased
Robert A. Millikan
1868
– 1953
· Age 85
Deceased
Roger Ebert
1942
– 2013
· Age 70
Deceased
Paul Samuelson
1915
– 2009
· Age 94
Deceased
Philip Roth
1933
– 2018
· Age 85
Deceased
Murray Gell-Mann
1929
– 2019
· Age 89
Deceased
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910
– 1995
· Age 84
Deceased
Arthur Holly Compton
1892
– 1962
· Age 69
Deceased
James Franck
1882
– 1964
· Age 81
Deceased
B. F. Skinner
1904
– 1990
· Age 86
Deceased
Ada Yonath
1939
· Age 86
Alive
Abdus Salam
1926
– 1996
· Age 70
Deceased
Chen-ning Yang
1922
– 2025
· Age 103
Deceased
Michael Crichton
1942
– 2008
· Age 66
Deceased
Alexis Carrel
1873
– 1944
· Age 71
Deceased
Edward Teller
1908
– 2003
· Age 95
Deceased
Carlos Fuentes
1928
– 2012
· Age 83
Deceased
Ilya Prigogine
1917
– 2003
· Age 86
Deceased
Leon M. Lederman
1922
– 2018
· Age 96
Deceased
Harold Urey
1893
– 1981
· Age 87
Deceased
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868
– 1963
· Age 95
Deceased
Yoichiro Nambu
1921
– 2015
· Age 94
Deceased
Kenneth Arrow
1921
– 2017
· Age 95
Deceased
Willard Libby
1908
– 1980
· Age 71
Deceased
Mircea Eliade
1907
– 1986
· Age 79
Deceased
Harald zur Hausen
1936
– 2023
· Age 87
Deceased
Edward Sapir
1884
– 1939
· Age 55
Deceased
Leó Szilárd
1898
– 1964
· Age 66
Deceased
Rudolf Carnap
1891
– 1970
· Age 79
Deceased
Joseph Heller
1923
– 1999
· Age 76
Deceased
John Robert Schrieffer
1931
– 2019
· Age 88
Deceased
James Cronin
1931
– 2016
· Age 84
Deceased
Gary Becker
1930
– 2014
· Age 83
Deceased
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
1925
– 2011
· Age 85
Deceased
Max Horkheimer
1895
– 1973
· Age 78
Deceased
Simon Kuznets
1901
– 1985
· Age 84
Deceased
Thornton Wilder
1897
– 1975
· Age 78
Deceased