Other prominent names on the list of those dead include NASA Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who was murdered on February 16, 2026. Physicist Nuno Loureiro, who was working on plasma physics and was reportedly close to a breakthrough on clean energy, was killed outside his Boston home on December 15, 2025. Jason Thomas, assistant director of chemical biology at Novartis, was found dead on March 17. Frank Maiwald, Principal Researcher at NASA JPL and Michael David Hicks, veteran physicist at NASA JPL, also passed away.
