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Jacques Piccard, 86 (1922 - 2008)
Geneva - Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son's company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his Lake Geneva home in Switzerland, the company Solar Impulse said. Exploration ran in the Piccard family. Jacques' physicist father, Auguste, was the first man to take a balloon into the...
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Robert H. Foote, 86 (1922 - 2008)
ITHACA, N.Y. - Robert H. Foote, a Cornell University animal scientist known for his pioneering work on invitro fertilization and cloning, died Monday. He was 86. Foote _ who the university says died of lung failure _ joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor in 1950 and became a professor in 1963. He received his first research grants and began studying DNA in rabbits in 1958....
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Martin A. Pomerantz , 91 (1916 - 2008)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller By bringing astrophysical research to Antarctica, Martin A. Pomerantz fostered what he called "astronomy on ice." "Almost single-handedly, he recognized the value of one of the world's most remote and inhospitable places as an ideal place to study the physical origin of the universe and other complex...
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Jim Benson (2008)
Following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller Before Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos extended their ambitions from cyberspace to outer space, software entrepreneur Jim Benson built a rocket company to colonize asteroids. Instead, he wound up piloting SpaceDev Inc., a successful, if earthbound, venture. SpaceDev made the thrusters that powered Burt Rutan's...
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Dr. George Palade, 95 (1912 - 2008)
SAN DIEGO -- Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95. Palade died Tuesday, the university announced. He was born in Romania, earned his medical degree there and came to the United States...
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Joel N. Bloom, 83 (1925 - 2008)
PHILADELPHIA -- Joel N. Bloom, former director and president of the Franklin Institute's science museum and planetarium, has died, the museum said. He was 83. Bloom died Tuesday following what...
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Philip E. Clapp (2008)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Philip E. Clapp, a veteran U.S. environmental activist who helped bring high-powered business lobbying to issues like climate change, has died in Amsterdam, the Pew...
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Ralph S. Plaisted, 80 (1927 - 2008)
WYOMING, Minn. - Ralph S. Plaisted, an insurance salesman turned explorer who in 1968 led the first expedition that indisputably reached the North Pole over the ice, has died. He was 80. ...
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Frank Mundus (2008)
HONOLULU -- Frank Mundus, the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint character in the movie "Jaws," has died. He was 82. Mundus died Wednesday at The Queen's...
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Geoff Ballard (2008)
TORONTO - Geoff Ballard, a Canadian pioneer of the fuel cell industry and an entrepreneur Time Magazine once named one of its "Heroes for the Planet," died over the weekend. A company official...
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Dr. Victor A. McKusick, 86 (1921 - 2008)
TOWSON, Md. - Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86. Officials at Johns Hopkins University,...
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William Sanders (2008)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- William Sanders, a leader in the field of archaeology and member of the National Academy of Sciences, died July 2. He was 82. The retired Penn State professor died of...
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Walter Schirra, 84 (1923 - 2007)
SAN DIEGO - Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died. He was 84. His family said he...
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 78 (1926 - 2004)
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who famously theorized in 1969 that terminally ill patients go through five stages of grief _ denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance _ died...
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Jacques Cousteau, 87 (1910 - 1997)
French undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who died Wednesday, June 25, succumbed to a heart attack at his Paris home, his widow Francine said. She said that 87-year-old Cousteau, who...
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Homer J. Stewart
Homer J. Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research who helped develop the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, has died. He was 91. Stewart, an emeritus professor of aeronautics at the...
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Albert Henn
Africa captured the heart of Dr. Albert Henn nearly four decades ago, when he worked in Togo as a field doctor for the U.S. Peace Corps. He dedicated his life to Africa ever since, most recently...
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Theodore Maiman
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Theodore H. Maiman, a physicist who built the first working laser in the United States and advocated for its use in medical applications, died Sunday. He was 79...
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Robert L. Riedenauer
Robert L. Riedenauer, a test pilot who flew top-secret aircraft that were later used in military missions, died Monday after a long battle with cancer, his wife said. He was 70. A retired Air...
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who was dubbed the "Isaac Newton of our time" for his pioneering research on liquid crystals, has died. He was 74. He died Friday in Orsay,...
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The Wright Brothers
Flight pioneers who have set speed records, orbited the Earth and walked on the moon gathered in the hometown of Wilbur and Orville Wright to honor the flight pioneers. The Wright brothers made...
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Harold E. Froehlich
Harold E. Froehlich, who designed a deep-sea vessel used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and search for ocean life forms, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 84. He had cancer and...
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Paul Yost
Paul "Ed" Yost, considered the father of modern hot-air ballooning for a successful three-mile (five-kilometer) trip on a propane-powered balloon, has died. He was 87. Yost died Sunday at his...
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Pamela Low
Pamela Low, who was credited with developing the flavored coating for Cap'n Crunch cereal, has died, her brother said. She was 79. Low died Friday at New London Hospital. Low was working for the...
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Annie Gardner
Annie Gardner, the first person to receive a heart transplant in an Indiana hospital, has died. She was 63. The Crawfordsville woman received two heart transplants -- one Oct. 30, 1982 and...
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Samuel Weissman
Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has died, his wife said Friday. He was 94. Weissman died Tuesday in St....
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Charles Lee Remington
Charles Lee Remington, a leading biologist in the study of butterflies and moths, has died. He was 85. Remington, emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University for...
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Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman, a chemist who served as president of both the University of Texas and Rice University, died Saturday, Rice said. He was 95. Hackerman joined UT as an assistant professor in 1945...
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Robert Riedenauer
Robert L. Riedenauer, a test pilot who flew top-secret aircraft that were later used in military missions, has died. He was 70. Riedenauer died Monday at his home in Palmdale following a long...
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John Todd
John "Jack" Todd, a pioneer in the fields of computing and numerical analysis, has died. He was 96. Todd died June 21 at his home in Pasadena, according to the California Institute of Technology,...
