Acclaimed Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr Dies
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Ernst Mayr, a Harvard University evolutionary biologist called "the Darwin of the 20th century," has died, the school said Friday. He was 100.
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, whose provocative books revolutionized how the living talk about death and advocated a belief in the afterlife, died Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to "The Roof of the World" used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
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One of Earth&#39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po&#39;ouli. The aging male po&#39;ouli died in captivity
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Edmund Hillary, 88, a beekeeper-turned-mountaineer from New Zealand who with his Sherpa guide in 1953 became the first men known to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, died early today at Auckland City Hospital. No cause of death was reported.
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Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on the "Match Game" in the 1970s, has died, her son said. She was 83. Somers died Saturday at her home in Westport of stomach and colon cancer, Adam Klugman said Monday.
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Billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, whose father was convicted at Nuremburg of using slave labor in Nazi Germany, has died at the age of 79, according to news reports Friday.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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La via genetica si conferma quella piÃ¹ promettente nella cura di molte malattie, compreso il cancro. Ricercatori della Stanford University di Palo Alto, coordinati da Dean W. Felsher, sono riusciti a far
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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PARIS - World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian   naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, has died in a marine   accident off Australia's northeast coast, local media reported   on Monday.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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Description: Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients, has died at age 78.
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Helmut Simon, the German who discovered an intact Bronze Age mummy in an Alps glacier, has been found dead in the Austrian Alps.