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Ernest Beutler, 80, Dies; Studied Blood Diseases

Dr. Ernest Beutler, a leading hematologist whose studies opened an important new window onto the treatment of leukemia, died on Oct. 5 in San Diego. He was 80. The cause was lymphoma, said a spokesman from the Scripps Research Institute in the La ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2008

Avraham Biran, Archaeologist Who Studied Biblical Sites, Is Dead at 98

Avraham Biran, an archaeologist of biblical sites who excavated Tel Dan, an ancient city along Israel’s northern border, and uncovered an unexpected stone fragment bearing what might be the earliest reference to the House of David, died on Sept. 16 in ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2008

Hugh Butt, 98, medical pioneer

patients, and the successful results were announced in 1938, to broad acclaim. Vitamin K remains in use as a leading therapy to treat hemorrhaging in patients with jaundice. Dr. Hugh R. Butt, whose bravura studies of coagulation showed that vitamin K ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The San Jose Mercury News,  24 Aug 2008

Hugh Butt, 98, medical pioneer

patients, and the successful results were announced in 1938, to broad acclaim. Vitamin K remains in use as a leading therapy to treat hemorrhaging in patients with jaundice. Dr. Hugh R. Butt, whose bravura studies of coagulation showed that vitamin K ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The San Jose Mercury News,  24 Aug 2008

Obituaries: Hugh R. Butt, 98, Doctor Whose Studies Helped With Blood Problems, Dies

Dr. Hugh R. Butt, whose bravura studies of coagulation showed that Vitamin K could be highly effective in halting internal bleeding and that it could be used to reduce deaths markedly among patients with jaundice, died on Aug. 16 in Rochester, Minn. He ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  23 Aug 2008

Ralph D. Feigin, 70, Children’s Diseases Book Editor, Dies

Dr. Ralph D. Feigin, a former president of the Baylor College of Medicine who edited an authoritative textbook on infectious diseases in children, died on Aug. 14 in Houston. He was 70. The cause was lung cancer, said his family, who said that Dr. ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  22 Aug 2008

Geoffrey Ballard, 75, Fuel-Cell Pioneer Who Created Bus Powered by Hydrogen, Dies

Geoffrey Ballard, a Canadian entrepreneur whose company became a bellwether in the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power cars and other vehicles, helping lead the struggle to diminish the role of the gasoline engine, died on Aug. 2 in North Vancouver. He ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  11 Aug 2008

J. Murdoch Ritchie, Who Used Toxin to Trace Nerve Impulses, Is Dead at 83

J. Murdoch Ritchie, a biophysicist at Yale who used a potent neurotoxin derived from shellfish to help trace the way nerve cells conduct electrical impulses and famously asked the Central Intelligence Agency to share its supply of the poison with ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  31 Jul 2008

J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83, Yale Biophysicist, Is Dead

Yale who used a potent neurotoxin derived from shellfish to help trace the way nerve cells conduct electrical impulses and famously asked the Central Intelligence Agency to share its supply of the poison with scientists, died on July 9 in Hamden, Conn. ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  28 Jul 2008

Howard L. Bachrach, 88, Early Polio Researcher, Is Dead

Dr. Bachrach studied foot and mouth disease in the 1970s at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a federal laboratory off the North Fork of Long Island. Foot and mouth is a contagious disease that can severely debilitate cows, sheep, pigs and other ...

From JEREMY PEARCE, The New York Times,  24 Jul 2008

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