2021 was filled with tremendous loss, from staggering COVID deaths to those of leading writers such as Joan Didion and bell hooks to a longtime abortion activist and politicians who shaped our world.
Desmond Tutu at the unveiling ceremony of the Arch for the Arch monument as part of celebrations for his 86th birthday in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2017. , was"a towering figure who helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa," as NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton wrote. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for that work.
Known as"the ant man" for his studies on ant behavior, E.O. Wilson was a biologist, environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor. He also pioneered the field of sociobiology, which grew out of his interest in the intersection between human behavior and genetics. As an environmentalist, Wilson —
— advocated setting aside half of the Earth as wilderness, among other measures. He wrote more than 30 books, won two Pulitzer Prizes and scientific prizes such as the U.S. National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize.At the end of 2020, the U.S. was grieving the loss of
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