page_title: 2011 in science
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 in science / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Rudolf Mössbauer
context_page_description: The year 2011 involved many significant scientific events, including the first artificial organ transplant, the launch of China's first space station and the growth of the world population to seven billion. The year saw a total of 78 successful orbital spaceflights, as well as numerous advances in fields such as electronics, medicine, genetics, climatology and robotics.
  2011 was declared the International Year of Forests and Chemistry by the United Nations.
context_section_description: 5 September – Angioletta Coradini, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1946).
  6 September – Bruce B. Dan, American physician (b. 1946).
  9 September – Valentino Braitenberg, Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist (b. 1926).
  14 September – Rudolf Mössbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929).
  16 September – William Hawthorne, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1913).
  17 September – Julius Blank, American mechanical engineer (b. 1925).
  20 September – Oscar Handlin, American historian (b. 1915).
  21 September – Michael Julian Drake, American astronomer (b. 1946).
  22 September – Margaret Ogola, Kenyan physician (b. 1958).
  23 September – Carl Wood, Australian physician (b. 1929).
  24 September – Richard Koch, American physician, advocate for phenylketonuria neonate screening (b. 1921).
  25 September – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1940).
  26 September – Robert Blinc, Slovene physicist (b. 1933).
  27 September – Wilson Greatbatch, American electrical engineer and the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker (b. 1919).
  28 September – Pierre Dansereau, Canadian biologist (b. 1911).
  30 September
  Lee Davenport, American physicist (b. 1915).
  Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist (b. 1943).
caption: 14 September 2011: Rudolf Mössbauer, a Nobel Prize-winning German physicist, dies aged 82.
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