Maria Ragland Davis, 52. Died February 13, 2010 at the hand of Neurobiologist Amy Bishop. Her background was in chemical engineering and biochemistry, and she specialized in plant pathology and biotechnology applications. She had a doctorate in biochemistry and had worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Monsanto Company in St. Louis. She was hired at the University of Alabama after a seven-year stint as a senior scientist in the plant-science department at Research Genetics Inc. (later Invitrogen), also in Huntsville.
Alberto Behar: NASA Robotics Expert Who Helped Prove Water Existed on Mars
A Career in Planetary Robotics Alberto Behar was a 47-year-old robotics expert who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Over the course of his career, he contributed to two Mars missions and spent years developing robots capable of...
