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No one ever fought off the trappings of fame and success so fiercely as the singer, songwriter, and mathematician Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97.…

The American playwright Richard Greenberg, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was an accomplished and prolific chronicler of the lives of young, upwardly mobile professionals…

Sir Francis Graham-Smith, who has died aged 102, was the last of the generation that created modern radio astronomy, the branch of astronomy that studies the…

Kenneth Colley, who has died aged 87, after suffering from Covid and pneumonia, was a character actor widely admired by both the press and public for…

My father, Arthur Callaghan, who has died aged 93, was a biology lecturer at Staffordshire University and passionately committed to “blue sky” research: scientific endeavour for…

Science and politics can make awkward bedfellows, with the very question of whether it is possible to make purely objective observations about the world drawing forth…