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 in...
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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.Hillie...
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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 $...
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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 ...
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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 Huntingto...
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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 Huntingto...
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Just a few hours after winning the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine, Oliver Smithies arrived at the small office he shares with his wife at the University of North Carolina.There was, after all, work t...
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Two Americans and a Briton shared the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking stem-cell research on mice that helped establish the role of individual genes in human ailments including ...
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Rassim al-JumailiBAGHDAD (AP) — Rassim al-Jumaili, a veteran Iraqi comedian who left his homeland for Syria after the U.S. invasion and played a sarcastic dictator in his final role earlier t...
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Albert Lasker
RCA's James Hillier, electron microscope co-developer, dead at 91
