Wallace L. Pannier, 81, died Aug. 6, 2009 of respiratory failure and other natural causes. Pannier, a germ warfare scientist whose top-secret projects included a mock attack on the New York subway with powdered bacteria in 1966. Mr. Pannier worked at Fort Detrick, a US Army installation in Frederick that tested biological weapons during the Cold War and is now a center for biodefense research. He worked in the Special Operations Division, a secretive unit operating there from 1949 to 1969, according to family members and published reports. The unit developed and tested delivery systems for deadly agents such as anthrax and smallpox.
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...
