Herbert Kroemer was born on August 25, 1928, in the city of Weimar, Germany, the eldest of three siblings. His…
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Comics artist Ed Piskor, known for his multivolume “Hip Hop Family Tree,” died last week after posting a lengthy note…
Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a new particle named after him (as well as God) and sparked a…
Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist novel “The L-Shaped Room”…
Richard Truly, a naval aviator and astronaut who flew on two early space shuttle missions and, as NASA’s associate administrator,…
In March 1961, Dr. Anthony Epstein, a pathologist at Middlesex Hospital in London, almost skipped the visiting physician’s afternoon lecture…
Kathy Goldman, who devoted her career as a civic leader to establishing food banks, pantries and free breakfast and lunch…
Howard H. Hiatt, a physician, scientist and academic who reshaped the field of public health, moving it away from the…
Akira Toriyama, who was one of Japan’s leading comic book authors and most famous for the successful manga and anime…
Lucas Samaras, who sang his own song louder and in more keys than any other postwar visual artist, creating a…