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An interesting note (maybe a 2016 tag is appropriate?):

> Yet for all the widespread familiarity of what Dr. Hall wrought as a remarkably inventive physicist, his death, at 96, on Nov. 7, 2016, gained little notice. An announcement paid for by his family appeared in two upstate New York newspapers — The Times Union of Albany and The Daily Gazette of Schenectady — and General Electric, in a company publication, published a remembrance a month later. But otherwise the news of Dr. Hall’s death did not travel very far.

They had an obituary on file but never knew he died. So the article was in fact published in 2018 - I don't think it deserves the date tag.
Wikipedia has a very small article devoted to him. Shows the importance of advertising oneself.