Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, Who Helped Develop the CAT Scanner, Dies at 84
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Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer whose work in creating the CAT scan won him a Nobel Prize.
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New Zealand scientist Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, hailed as an unsung hero of DNA research, has died in London. He was 88. Though he was not widely known in New Zealand, Professor Wilkins was possibly
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By Clint Swett  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Steve Wozniak never questioned that his calling was science and electronics.  The 56-year-old co-founder of Apple Computer was weaned on Tom Swift books, and recalls being thrilled that Tom could develop a plasma field to trap space aliens.
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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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THE great-grandfather of modern computers was today being commemorated with a special set of stamps. Bletchley Park Post Office is issuing a first day cover featuring the 1943 Colossus.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 12--Ted Hoff, one of the inventors of the first Intel microprocessor, was catching yellow jacket wasps with plastic cups.
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Donald Machholz of Colfax,    California, an optician who has been interested in astronomy since age eight,    discovered nine comet from 1978 through 1994. He has since spent 1,457 hours    scanning the skies for other comets, without any luck.
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Tech-savvy voyeurs are cobbling together DIY infra-red scanners for less-than-noble uses. For every offense, however, there is economic opportunity. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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One of the world's greatest singers, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, dies aged 71 after a battle with cancer.
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Scientist Professor David Parry has paid tribute to Nobel Prize winner and New Zealand born scientist Maurice Wilkins who has died at the age of 88.
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Laptop goes MIA from Westminster A laptop containing information about Parliament's security systems disappeared from, er, the department responsible for Parliament's security last week, claims the Daily Telegraph. According to the paper, the machine belonged to an official working for the Serjeant at Arms, and disappeared from inside the parliamentary estate.â¦
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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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Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82.
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Aug 17 - Professor Raj Reddy, an Indian researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Has designed a wirelessly networked personal computer worth just 250 US dollars intended for the four billion people around the ...
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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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Sir William Deakin, a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 91, his family said.
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Earl Ubell, 80, a print and broadcast medical and science journalist who covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the post-war age in a lively and effective style, died May 30 at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He had Parkinson's disease and dementia.