Jul 16, 2000 | Scientists Re-Booted
Mike Thomas, age 35, died on July 16, 2000 a few days after examining a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived. He was a microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.Mike Thomas, age 35, died on July 16,...
Apr 15, 2000 | Scientists Re-Booted
Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62, died on April 15, 2000 of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital. He was an extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher about mental health and AIDS in the African American community. Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62, died on April 15,...
Jun 3, 1999 | Scientists Re-Booted
Darwin Kenneth Vest disappeared in the early morning hours of June 3, 1999 while walking in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho (USA).Darwin Kenneth Vest, born April 22, 1951, was an internationally renowned entomologist, expert on hobo spiders and other poisonous spiders and...
Sep 27, 1998 | Scientists Re-Booted
Jonathan Mann, age 51, died September 1998 in SwissAir Flight 111 over Canada. He was founding director of the World Health Organization’s global Aids program and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive Aids research effort in Africa at the time,...
Jul 10, 1998 | Scientists Re-Booted
Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., age 46, died on July 10, 1998 in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee. She was an associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She was...
Dec 25, 1997 | Scientists Re-Booted
Sidney Harshman, age 67, died oSidney Harshman, age 67, died on December 25, 1997, from complications of diabetes. He was a professor of microbiology and immunology. He was the world’s leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins.Sidney Harshman, age 67, died...
Sep 27, 1996 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. C. Bruton, a CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease) specialist — who had just produced a paper on the a new strain of CJD — was killed in a car crash before his work was announced to the public. Purdey speculates that Bruton might have known more than what...
May 7, 1996 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age 46, died on May 7, 1996. Shot and killed, along with his young daughter, in La Jolla, California. He was dead behind the wheel of the car, the side window had been shot out, and the door was open. His daughter appeared to have tried to run away...
Sep 27, 1994 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornell, he was hired to head the mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi’s projects was filling payloads of scud missiles with mycoplasma strains. In 1995, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the...
May 19, 1994 | Scientists Re-Booted
Jose Trias died on May 19, 1994. Trias and his wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Maryland home. They met with a friend of theirs, a journalist, before the day of their murder and told him of their plan to expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) funding of...
