Scientist Miriam Rothschild Dead at 96
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Dame Miriam Rothschild, a self-taught scientist from the famous banking family whose highly technical studies of parasites earned her the title "Queen of the Fleas," has died at the age of 96, her family said.
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Rose Mattus, who launched Haagen-Dazs ice cream with her husband more than four decades ago, has died. She was 90.
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An Egyptian engineer who was convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, Egyptian security sources said on Monday.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, one of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychiatrist who has died aged 78, was considered one of the world&#39;s foremost authorities on the psychology of dying, and is credited with changing attitudes towards the terminally ill.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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PHOENIX - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78...
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William C. Reeves, the UC Berkeley scientist whose pioneering research into the links between insects and human disease played a major role in stemming the spread of West Nile virus and other far more deadly disease outbreaks around the world, died Sunday
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Dr. Francis Crick, a renowned radicular Biologist, died of cancer on July 29, 2004. Prof. D. Wilson Devaprasad, an ardent reader of SOM had the opportunity of listening to his talk on &#39;DNA Helix&#39; at Hyderabad in 1981.
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98.
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The legendary Russian prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova has died aged 66 after a long illness, the Bolshoi theatre where she made a brilliant career during the Soviet era announced on Tuesday.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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BOMBAY: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India&#39;s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday in Bombay at age 79.
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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.