Tag: obituary
Obituary: John Henry Holland, computer scientist
A pioneer in the field of computer science, whose work was applied to economics, evolution, and psychology, has died.
Obituary: Md. 'Batman' dies in car accident
A local hero to sick kids has died: Lenny Robinson, of Owings Mills, Md., dressed up as Batman and visited hospitalized children to spread cheer.
Obituary: George Cooper
The executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a graduate of Illinois, has died.
Obituary: John & Alicia Nash
John Nash, who inspired A Beautiful Mind & shared a Nobel Prize for his economic theories on noncooperative games, dies at 86.
Obituary: Beverly Hall
The former superintendent in the middle of the test cheating scandal in Atlanta died of breast cancer, leaving her case and legacy unresolved.
Robert E Cooke, a creator of Head Start, dies at 93
A pediatrician who headed the committee whose recommendations led to the creation of the Head Start program died on Feb 2.
Leonard Lerman, DNA scientist, dies at 87
The man who shaped our theories about how DNA encodes information for proteins died in mid-September.
Obituary: Walter Cronkite
Longtime news anchor Walter Cronkite died at the age of 92. He brought us the news when we trusted those who do.
3 icons of American pop culture have died
Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson died within days of each other.