Albert Lasker (1880-1952) was a prominent advertising executive during the first half of the 20th century. During his 40-year tenure with the Chicago-based Lord and Thomas, Lasker built the company into the largest advertising agency in the United...

Inventor James Hillier, who helped develop and market the first commercially successful electron microscope in the United States and found uses for it in medical research, has died at age 91.Hillier died Jan. 15 at a Princeton hospital after suffering a stroke, according to his...

Two researchers who opened up the field of heart-valve replacement and a scientist who discovered a type of cell that plays a key role in the immune system have won prestigious medical prizes.The $150,000 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards will be presented Sept. 28 in...

As a child growing up in England, Oliver Smithies read the comics. One strip had an inventor, and Smithies decided then that is what he wanted to be.A path than began with the comics took Smithies from his Yorkshire home to Oxford University and then...

Seymour Benzer, a groundbreaking biologist whose work linking behavior and genes laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, has died. He was 86.Benzer died of a stroke Friday morning at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, said Jill Perry, a spokeswoman for the California Institute of Technology, where...