« Previous  |  Next »

Carl D. Keith, co-inventor of catalytic converter, dies

improvement in air quality and enabled the auto industry to meet the Clean Air Act regulations." Carl D. Keith, a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The San Jose Mercury News,  15 Nov 2008

Carl D. Keith, co-inventor of catalytic converter, dies

improvement in air quality and enabled the auto industry to meet the Clean Air Act regulations." Carl D. Keith, a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The San Jose Mercury News,  15 Nov 2008

Carl D. Keith, co-inventor of catalytic converter, dies

improvement in air quality and enabled the auto industry to meet the Clean Air Act regulations." Carl D. Keith, a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The San Jose Mercury News,  15 Nov 2008

Carl D. Keith, co-inventor of catalytic converter, dies

improvement in air quality and enabled the auto industry to meet the Clean Air Act regulations." Carl D. Keith, a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The San Jose Mercury News,  15 Nov 2008

Carl D. Keith, a Father of the Catalytic Converter, Dies at 88

Carl D. Keith, a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once blanketed cities in smog died Sunday while visiting one of his daughters in New Bern, N.C. He was 88 and ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2008

Florence S. Wald, American Pioneer in End-of-Life Care, Is Dead at 91

Florence S. Wald, whose vision of bringing the terminally ill peace of mind and, to whatever extent possible, freedom from pain led to the opening of the first palliative care hospice in the United States, died on Saturday at her home in Branford, Conn. ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2008

Abraham Woods, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 80

The Rev. Abraham L. Woods Jr., a civil rights campaigner who in the days of crowd-throttling fire-hosings and snarling police dogs led the first lunch-counter sit-ins in Birmingham, Ala., and three decades later played a pivotal role confronting racial ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2008

Arthur J. Shawcross, 63, Serial Killer in Rochester Dies

Arthur J. Shawcross, a serial killer serving a 250-year sentence for strangling, suffocating or beating to death 11 women in the Rochester area in the late 1980s, died on Monday. He was 63. Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the New York State Department of ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2008

Obituary: Jheryl Busby, 59, reviver of the Motown label

reached nearly $100 million annually during the best years, had slipped to about $20 million, and the label was eighth on Billboard magazine's ranking of black album sales. Jheryl Busby, a music executive credited with reviving the legendary Motown ...

From DENNIS HEVESI, The San Jose Mercury News,  8 Nov 2008

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry