Co-Inventor of the TV remote dies
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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
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Former Tomorrow's World presenter Raymond Baxter dies in hospital at the age of 84.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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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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The world's most prolific inventor, whose contributions in the area of power, light and sound changed the world forever, is born.
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Associated Press - It&#39;s a keychain that works like a universal remote control, but one that can turn almost any television on or off.
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Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema.
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SAN FRANCISCO Computer scientist Bob Evans, who helped popularize personal computing, has died. He was 77. His son Doug said Evans died Thursday of heart failure at his home in the San Francisco of Hillsborough.
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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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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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Prolific television producer Aaron  Spelling, whose shows such as &quot;Beverly Hills 90210&quot; and  &quot;Dynasty&quot; helped shape U.S. prime-time television, died on  Friday, days after suffering a stroke, his publicist said. He  was 83.
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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FIRST video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder&#39;s days could be numbered too, after Britain&#39;s biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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Inventor Robert Adler died recently at 93. But his most famous invention, the first successful clicker, will live long after him.
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Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.