Jul 21, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Bassem al-Mudares died on July 21, 2004. His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq. He was a Ph.D chemist and had been tortured before being killed. He was a drug company worker who had a chemistry doctorate.
Jul 21, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. John Badwey, age 54, died on July 21, 2004. Dr. Badwey was a Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Badwey suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms then died in two weeks. He was a...
Jul 6, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Professor Stephen Tabet, age 42, died on July 6, 2004 from an unknown illness. He was an associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the...
Jul 2, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53, died July 2, 2004 from unknown causes. He was a Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. He worked at Sandia National...
Jul 1, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Edward Hoffman, age 62, died July 1, 2004 from unknown causes. Hoffman was a professor and a scientist who also held leadership positions within the UCLA medical community. He worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St....
Jun 29, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
John Mullen, age 67, died June 29, 2004. John Mullen was a Nuclear physicist poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. He was a nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not say how Mullen was exposed to the arsenic or where it came...
Jun 27, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Paul Norman, age 52, died on June 27, 2004. He was from Salisbury Wiltshire and killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon. He was an expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world lecturing on defending against the...
Jun 24, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Assefa Tulu, age 45, died June 24, 2004. Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five years as the county’s lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking the health of the country, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis,...
Jun 22, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Thomas Gold, age 84, died June 22, 2004. Austrian born Thomas Gold famous over the years for a variety of bold theories that flout conventional wisdom and reported in his 1998 book, “The Deep Hot Biosphere,” the idea challenges the accepted wisdom of how...
May 25, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Antonina Presnyakova, age 46, died May 25, 2004. A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died after an accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety and...
May 14, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Eugene Mallove, age 56, died May 14, 2004. Autopsy confirmed Mallove died as a result of several blunt-force injuries to his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found at the end of his driveway. Alt. Energy Expert who was working on viable energy alternative program...
May 5, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April 2004. His body was found in three suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay. He was a NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology...
Apr 12, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Ilsley Ingram, age 84, died on April 12, 2004 from unknown causes. Ingram was Director of the Supraregional Hemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London. Although his age is most...
Apr 3, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly died April 2004. This distinguished Iraqi chemistry professor died in American custody from a sudden hit to the back of his head caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he died, but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with...
Mar 13, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Vadake Srinivasan died March 13, 2004. The Microbiologist crashed car into guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. The death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from India, and was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two...
Jan 24, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62, died January 24, 2004. Kiley died of massive heart attack. He was an expert in Ebola, Mad Cow Expert and top of the line world class. It is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it “gave out”. Dr. Shope and Dr....
Jan 23, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Robert Shope, age 74, died January 23, 2004. He was a virus expert who warned of epidemics and died of lung transplant complications. Later it was purported he had died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a virus....
Jan 6, 2004 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Richard Stevens, age 54, died on January 6, 2004. He had disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has...
Jul 26, 2003 | Scientists Re-Booted
‘Dr. Roger’ died in the Summer of 2003. ‘Roger’ was a pseudonym for this genetics scientist. He was 17 and lived in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the unexplained object crashed. He told a woman he worked with in 1977 named ‘Kate’...
Jul 18, 2003 | Scientists Re-Booted
David Kelly, age 59, died on July 18, 2003. British biological weapons expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home. Kelly was the Ministry of Defense’s chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms...
Jun 24, 2003 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Leland Rickman, age 47., died on June 24, 2003. Rickman died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all sides by South Africa. He was a UC San Diego expert on infectious diseases and, since September 11, 2001 a consultant on...
Apr 26, 2003 | Scientists Re-Booted
Carlo Urbani, age 46, died in April 2003 in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) – the new disease that he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with...
Dec 26, 2002 | Scientists Re-Booted
Roman Kuzmin died in December of 2002. The 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. He was studying to be an orthopedic surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman...
Aug 5, 2002 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. David R. Knibbs, age 49, died: August 5, 2002. He was a well-respected pathobiologist specializing in electron microscopy.
Mar 25, 2002 | Scientists Re-Booted
Steven Mostow, age 63, died on March 25, 2002. He was one of the country’s leading infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport. He was...
