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 bioterrorism. He had complained of a headache, but the cause of death was not immediately known. The physician had been working in Lesotho with Dr. Chris Matthews, director of the UC San Diego Medical Center’s Owen Clinic, teaching African medical personnel about the prevention and treatment of AIDS. Rickman, the incoming president of the Infectious Disease Association of California, was a multidisciplinary professor and practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine, epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.
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...
