In Memoriam

Who died in August 1958

4 memorials found

Ernest Lawrence

19011958

American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate who invented the cyclotron and founded the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories

Ralph Vaughan Williams

18721958

English composer who significantly shaped British classical music by integrating folk and Tudor traditions, known for his nine symphonies and diverse compositions

Roger Martin du Gard

18811958

French writer and playwright, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for his influential novel-cycle Les Thibault

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

19001958

French chemist and physicist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering induced radioactivity