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Elwood Jensen dies at 92; his research spurred cancer treatments
Elwood Jensen, a medical researcher whose ground-breaking work in the field of endocrinology and breast cancer led to revolutionary and life-saving treatments, died of complications from pneumonia on Dec. 16 in suburban Cincinnati, the University of...
Tags: Biology, University of Chicago, Breast Cancer, Medical Research, Colleges and Universities
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UC Davis chemistry researcher arrested after explosion on campus
L.A. NOWA UC Davis chemistry researcher has been arrested in connection with a blast on the campus Thursday that prompted an evacuation.... -
Trial decision delayed in UCLA lab death case
L.A. NOWA Los Angeles judge has delayed until mid-February her decision on whether UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran must stand trial on charges stemming from the December 2008 lab fire that killed staff research assistant Sheharbano “Sheri”... -
PASSINGS: Robert Morgan Fink, Gene Vollnogle, Dorothy McGuire Williamson
Robert Morgan Fink Biochemist at UCLA Robert Morgan Fink, 96, a retired UCLA biochemistry professor whose groundbreaking research with his biochemist wife included developing a new technique in the late 1940s to study the thyroid, died Wednesday of...
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Focus of UCLA lab-death case turns to murder from past
L.A. NOWThe case is supposed to be about the accidental death of a UCLA lab worker in 2008. But it temporarily has focused on another death: a 1985 murder involving a methamphetamine robbery. Defense attorneys contend that occupational-safety charges against UCLA... -
UC Regents strike plea deal in chemistry lab death at UCLA
L.A. NOWFelony charges against the University of California Regents stemming from the 2009 death of UCLA research assistant Sheharbano “Sheri” Sangji were dropped Friday in return for a pledge of comprehensive safety measures and the endowment of a... -
William S. Knowles dies at 95; Nobel Prize-winning chemist
William S. Knowles, a retired Monsanto Co. organic chemist who shared a Nobel Prize in 2001 for helping to solve a vexing problem in the manufacture of medicines, died Wednesday of complications of ALS at his home in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield,...Tags: Columbia University, Thalidomide (drug), Entertainment Events, Health, World War II (1939-1945)
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Street closed, students checked after chemistry experiment goes awry
L.A. NOWSchool science experiment gone wrong? A portion of a North Hollywood street was closed Monday after fire officials say a chemical reaction turned vaporous during a “teacher-supervised experiment” at East Valley High School. No one was hurt,... -
Report faults professor, UCLA in death of lab assistant
Ever since Sheri Sangji was fatally burned in a December 2008 lab fire, UCLA officials have cast it as a tragic accident, saying the 23-year-old staff research assistant was a seasoned chemist who was trained in the experiment that went awry.
But...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Health, Punishment
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PASSINGS: Sidney W. Benson
Sidney W. Benson Former USC chemistry professor Sidney W. Benson, 93, a chemistry professor who was scientific co-director of USC's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, died Dec. 30 at his home in Brentwood of complications from a stroke, the...Tags: West Palm Beach, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Entertainment Events
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James Arnold dies at 88; pushed to unlock secrets in moon rocks
When President John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 that America was committed to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade, winning the race became the paramount objective of the national space program....Tags: John F. Kennedy, Space Programs, Jules Verne, University of Chicago, Entertainment Events
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