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UC Irvine Nobel winner F. Sherwood Rowland dies
L.A. NOWF. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84. Rowland, known as Sherry, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, the university...... -
F. Sherwood Rowland dies at 84; UC Irvine professor won Nobel Prize
F. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84.
Rowland, known as Sherry, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar of complications from Parkinson'...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Awards and Prizes, Consumer Confidence, University of Chicago
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Maurice Goldhaber dies at 100; noted nuclear and particle physicist
Maurice Goldhaber, one of the pioneers of modern physics whose experiments helped create the current understanding of how the world works, died May 11 at his home on Long Island, N.Y., after a short illness. He had celebrated his 100th birthday less...Tags: Physics, Long Island, Applied Physics, Hartland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Jack Cover dies at 88; scientist invented the Taser stun gun
Jack Cover, an aerospace scientist who invented the Taser stun gun -- a device used by thousands of law enforcement agencies to subdue unruly offenders with electrical shocks -- has died. He was 88. Cover had Alzheimer's disease and died of pneumonia...Tags: Crimes, Greg Meyer, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Defense
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Albert V. Crewe dies at 82; physics professor captured first image of an atom
Albert V. Crewe, a physics professor who captured the first image of a single atom and later obtained the first images of atoms in motion, has died. He was 82.
A former director of Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Crewe died Nov. 18 of...Tags: Applied Physics, Argonne National Laboratory, Death, Social Issues, Science and Technology
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Stanley Miller, 77; chemist was a pioneer in studying the origins of life
Times Staff WriterStanley Miller, the UC San Diego chemist who was the first to demonstrate that the organic molecules necessary for life could be generated in a laboratory flask simulating the primitive Earth's atmosphere, died Sunday from heart failure in a hospital in...Tags: Australia (movie), University of California, Berkeley, Death, Weather Reports, Obituaries
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Price Tag Is Concern In Enfield School Consolidation
The Hartford CourantWith a proposed cost of $103 million for the consolidation of the town's two high schools, one of the biggest concerns for Mayor Scott Kaupin is convincing residents that the renovation and expansion is worth the expense. "I feel that there is a good...Tags: Education, Manufacturing and Engineering, Teaching and Learning, Heavy Engineering, Students
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Father of Slain Marine Calls Son's Death 'Pointless'
The Hartford CourantThe father of a Marine and former Enfield resident who was killed by another Marine inWashington, D.C., on Saturday said the slaying was "pointless and too horryfing to imagine." Philip Bushong, 23, had been a student at Enrico Fermi High School in...Tags: Prosecution, Witnesses, East Windsor, George Mason, Homophobia
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NATO countdown
As the world's eyes turn to Chicago, we recall international figures who once lived here: •Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister and onetime library worker in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood •Sir Edmund Hillary, Mount Everest conqueror...Tags: Golda Meir, Kenwood, Muhammad Ali, University of Chicago, North Lawndale
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Connecticut Teen With Cerebral Palsy Strives To Ski In 2014 Paralympics
The Hartford CourantFifteen-year-old Andrew Haraghey's hard work may make his dream to ski with the United States Adaptive Ski Team in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Russia a reality. Andrew, a sophomore at Enrico Fermi High School in Enfield, has spastic diplegia, a form...Tags: Paralympic Games, Cerebral Palsy, Diseases and Illnesses, Entertainment Events, Russia
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U. of C. shows items from Atomic Age time capsule
A 1948 University of Chicago telephone directory —- the size of a booklet —- and a Capital Airlines timetable were among the relics in a time capsule that one of the fathers of the atomic bomb placed inside a campus science building more...Tags: Education, Squash, Science and Technology, Science, Sports
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