[ad_1] Morton Mower, an enterprising cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electric shock, diedRead More
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Inventor of the Life-Saving Heart Device, Dr. Morton Mower dies at 89
[ad_1] Morton Mower, an enterprising cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electric shock, diedRead More
Sheldon Krimsky, Who Warned Against Snow Motivation in Science, Dies at 80
[ad_1] Leading environmental ethics scholar Sheldon Krimsky, who has explored issues between science, ethics and biotechnology, and warned of the dangers of private companies that undertake and influence academic research,Read More
Fuad El-Hibri, Leader of a Troubled Vaccine Manufacturer, dies at 64
[ad_1] Fuad Al-Hibri, whose biotech company won billions of dollars in government contracts to produce a vaccine against anthrax but stumbled in 2021 after being hired to produce Covid vaccines,Read More
Fuad El-Hibri, Leader of a Troubled Vaccine Manufacturer, dies at 64
[ad_1] “The cross-contamination thing is unacceptable,” he said, “period.” About 60 million additional doses were found to be contaminated in June. Fuad El-Hibri was born on March 2, 1958 inRead More
Climate Activist Dies After Setting Himself On Fire in Supreme Court
[ad_1] “The press spoke of suicide, but in essence it is not. It’s not even a protest,” he said. Thich Nhat Hanh wrote In addition to the monks’ words, “toRead More
Umang Gupta, who paved the way for Indian tech executives, dies at 73
[ad_1] Unlike most other companies of the era, it chose to run the software online and sell it as a subscription service; this is a business model that now dominatesRead More
Sign Language World Pioneer Ursula Bellugi dies at 91
[ad_1] Ursula Bellugi, a pioneer in the study of the biological underpinnings of language, and one of the first to demonstrate that sign language is as complex, abstract, and systematicRead More
Peter Swales, Surprised by Freud Scholarship, Dies at 73
[ad_1] “Peter Swales wasn’t always right about Freud and his followers,” said Daniel Burston, an associate professor of psychology at Duquesne University who has written on Freud and the influenceRead More
Sidney Altman, who found a breakthrough in genetics, dies at 82
[ad_1] Sidney Altman was born on May 7, 1939 in Montreal, the second son of Victor and Ray (Arlin) Altman. His mother was a textile worker; His father ran aRead More