Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Charles Sheffield fue un físico y escritor de ciencia ficción británico.

Eleanor Jack Gibson was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her first works on research conducted as an undergraduate student. Gibson was able to circumvent the many obstacles she faced due to the Great Depression and gender discrimination, by finding research opportunities that she could meld with her own interests. Gibson, with her husband James J. Gibson, created the Gibsonian ecological theory of development, which emphasized how important perception was because it allows humans to adapt to their environments. Perhaps her most well-known contribution to psychology was the "visual cliff,” which studied depth perception in both human and animal species, leading to a new understanding of perceptual development in infants. Gibson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, the National Academy of Education in 1972, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977. In 1992, she was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Andrés Lorenzo Pérez Araya fue un actor, dramaturgo y director teatral chileno, conocido principalmente por la obra La negra Ester y su labor en el teatro callejero.

Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leader in the study of group theory.

Mercedes Formica-Corsi Hezode, conocida como Mercedes Formica,fue una jurista, novelista y ensayista española especialmente conocida por su defensa de los derechos de la mujer en España.

Abba Eban -nacido Aubrey Solomon Meir-, fue un político y diplomático israelí, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Israel entre 1966 y 1974.