Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2011
Ivan Mesquita
Helga Stödter
Pavel Vinnik
Valery Gatayev
Franz Sackmann
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer fue un físico neerlandés especializado en la aceleración de partículas que inventó el concepto de enfriamiento estocástico en las colisiones, haciendo posible el descubrimiento de los bosones W y Z en el CERN 500 Gev colisionador protón-antiprotón por la UA-1 con la colaboración experimental de Carlo Rubbia. Como resultado van der Meer y Rubbia compartieron en 1984 el Premio Nobel de Física. Van der Meer trabajó en el CERN desde 1956 hasta su retiro en 1990.
Maurice Guigue
Maurice Alexandre Guigue was a football referee from France, who led the 1958 FIFA World Cup Final in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the second Frenchman, after Georges Capdeville, to referee a World Cup final.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg fue un científico estadounidense que obtuvo el Premio Nobel en Medicina en 1976 por sus hallazgos sobre "el origen y diseminación de las enfermedades infecciosas". Blumberg identificó el virus de la Hepatitis B, y posteriormente desarrolló su vacuna.
Fred Shuttlesworth
Frederick Lee "Fred" Shuttlesworth was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961. He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007. He helped Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement.
Ernie Johnson
Ernest Thorwald Johnson Sr. was an American professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between 1950 and 1959. He played the majority of his career with the Boston Braves and remained with team when they became the Milwaukee Braves in 1953. Johnson was a member of the world champion 1957 Milwaukee Braves. He played his final season with the Baltimore Orioles. After his playing career, he became a longtime television color commentator on the TBS television network. In 2001, Johnson was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame.