Via David G.
Raoul Bott - a Harvard mathematician who was fighting against cancer in San Diego and who discovered, among other things, the Bott periodicity theorem in the late 1950s - died the night of December 19-20, 2005.
Mathematics was much more important language for him, and some people remember him very well. See articles by Jacques Distler, Peter Woit, and Sean Carroll.
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