Kurt Gödel

== Later life and death ==

[[File:Kurt godel tomb 2004.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Gravestone of Kurt and Adele Gödel in the Princeton, N.J., cemetery]]

Later in his life, Gödel suffered periods of [[mental disorder|mental instability]] and illness. Following the assassination of his close friend [[Moritz Schlick]],<ref name="pape_Trag">{{Cite web | title = Tragic deaths in science: Kurt Gödel - looking over the edge of reason - Paperpile | url = https://paperpile.com/blog/kurt-goedel/}}</ref> Gödel developed an [[persecutory delusion|obsessive fear of being poisoned]], and would eat only food prepared by his wife Adele. Adele was hospitalized beginning in late 1977, and in her absence Gödel refused to eat;<ref>{{cite journal|title=Gödel's universe|author=Davis, Martin|journal=Nature|date=May 4, 2005|volume=435|issue=7038|doi=10.1038/435019a|pages=19–20|bibcode=2005Natur.435...19D|doi-access=free}}</ref> he weighed {{convert|65|lbs|kg|order=flip}} when he died of "malnutrition and [[inanition]] caused by personality disturbance" in [[Princeton Hospital]] on January 14, 1978.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Toates | first = Frederick |author2=Olga Coschug Toates  | title = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Practical Tried-and-Tested Strategies to Overcome OCD
| publisher=Class Publishing | year = 2002 | page = 221|isbn=978-1-85959-069-0}}</ref> He was buried in [[Princeton Cemetery]]. Adele died in 1981.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dawson |first1=John W. |author-link1=John W. Dawson Jr. |title=Gödel and the limits of logic |url=https://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic |website=Plus |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=November 1, 2020 |language=en |date=June 1, 2006}}</ref>