List of Dead Scientists who have died in the last 15 years including references.
A strange epidemic has flooded the industry of weird and unexplaned random deaths that may or may not be from natural causes. Most of these Medical experts are the best in their field and have political and or government ties! Most of these deaths beat the odds of randomness. Example is dying from a piano falling on you. However that may not be the case however, we find these highly unlikely! I
posted references at the end!
Died 2012
#119
Professor Dr. Richard Crowe, 60, died May 27 in an off-road accident in Arizona. Dr. Crowe
came to UH Hilo 25 years ago and helped launch the University’s undergraduate
astronomy program. is numerous publications and co-authored works added
significantly to the body of astronomical literature. He regularly trained UHH
student observers with the UH 24-inch telescope on Mauna Kea, and conducted many
research programs
on that telescope. In 2005, he won the AstroDay Excellence in Teaching Award for
his efforts. In 1991, Dr. Crowe was selected as a Fujio Matsuda Research Fellow
for his scholarly work on pulsating variable stars. Crowe was also active in the
community. He was a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Hilo Bay.
#118
Gelareh Bagherzadeh,
30, died Jan. 17, when she was shot
outside her home. Detectives investigating the murder of an Iranian
molecular scientist gunned down in her car as she drove home believe she was
followed or that someone was waiting for her. Bagherzadeh was struck by a single
bullet that entered the passenger door window as she talked on her cell phone
with her ex-boyfriend. Bagherzadeh was a molecular genetic technology student at
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and also active in promoting Iranian
women's rights.
Died 2011
#117
James S. Miller,
58, died Oct. 9, as a result of being
attacked during a home invasion. Professor James Steven Miller came to
Goshen College to teach in 1980, the same year he completed his doctorate degree
in medical biochemistry at Ohio State University. He received his undergraduate
degree in chemistry in 1975 from Bluffton (Ohio) University. The Goshen College
Board of Directors granted Professor Miller tenure in June 1985. He primarily
taught upper-level courses
taken by students in nursing, pre-medical and other health-related
tracks.
#116
Zachary Greene Warfield, 35,
died July 4 in a boating accident on the Potomac River. Zack was a
co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors for Omnis, Inc., a McLean,
VA-based strategic consulting firm for the intelligence, defense and national
security communities. He spearheaded major research initiatives and, in addition
to helping steer the company, was directly involved in numerous projects,
including analytic training and technology consulting. Prior to founding Omnis,
Zack was an engineer and analyst for the U.S. Government and private industry.
As a science and technology analyst, he assessed missile and space systems,
managed technical contracts, and investigated Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) program as a member of the Iraq Survey
Group, serving in Baghdad on two separate occasions.
As an engineer, he worked on aerospace projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and private industry. Most notably, Zack designed critical guidance systems that ensured a successful landing for the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity; his name is inscribed on one of the rovers, and remains on Mars today.
#115
Jonathan Widom, 55, died
July 18 of an apparent heart attack. He was a professor of Molecular
Biosciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern
University. Widom focused on how DNA is packaged into chromosomes -- and the
location of nucleosomes specifically. Colleagues said the work has had profound
implications for how genes are able to be read in the cell and how mutations
outside of the regions that encode proteins can lead to errors and
disease.
#112-114 Fanjun Meng, 29, and Chunyang Zhang, 26, drowned in a Branson hotel swimming pool. Both were from China and working in the anatomic pathology lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Meng was a visiting scholar and his wife, Zhang, was a research specialist, according to information at the university's website. Meng was working on research looking at a possible link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease.Police said the investigation is ongoing as to the cause of the drowning but had said earlier there was no sign of foul play.
#107-111 Andrei Tropinov, Sergei Rizhov, Gennadi Benyok, Nicolai Tronov and Valery Lyalin, in a Russian plane crash. The five scientists were employed at the Hydropress factory, a member of Russia's state nuclear corporation and had assisted in the development of Iran's nuclear plant. Theyworked at the Bushehr nuclear power plant and helped to complete construction of it. Officially Russian investigators say that human error and technical malfunction caused the deadly crash, which killed 45 and left 8 passengers surviving.
#106 Rodger Lynn Dickey, 56, from an apparent suicide Mar. 18 after he jumped from the Gorge Bridge. Dickey was a senior nuclear engineer with over 30 years of experience in support of the design, construction, start-up, and operation of commercial and government nuclear facilities. His expertise was in nuclear safety programmatic assessment, regulatory compliance, hazard assessment, safety analysis, and safety basis documentation. He completed project tasks in nuclear engineering design and application, nuclear waste management, project management, and risk management. His technical support experience included nuclear facility licensing, radiation protection, health and safety program assessments, operational readiness assessments, and systems engineering.
#105
Gregory Stone, 54, from an unknown illness Feb. 17. Stone, who was quoted
extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak,
was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System. Stone quickly
established himself as an internationally respected coastal scientist who
produced cutting-edge research and attracted millions of dollars of research
support to LSU. As part of his research, he and the CSI Field Support Group
developed a series of offshore instrumented stations to monitor wind, waves and
currents that impact the Louisiana coast. The system is used by many fishermen
and scientists to monitor wind, waves and currents off the Louisiana coast.
Stone was a great researcher, teacher, mentor and family man.
#104
Bradley C.
Livezey, 56, died in a car crash Feb.
8. Livezey knew nearly everything about the songs of birds and was
considered the top anatomist. Livezey, curator of The Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, never gave up researching unsolved mysteries of the world's 20,000 or
so avian species. Carnegie curator since 1993, Livezey oversaw a collection of
nearly 195,000 specimens of birds, the country's ninth largest. Livezey died in
a two-car crash on Route 910, authorities said. An autopsy revealed he died from
injuries to the head and trunk, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office
said. Northern Regional Police are investigating.
#103
Dr Massoud Ali
Mohammadi, 50, was assassinated Jan. 11
when a remote-control bomb inside a motorcycle near his car was detonated.
This professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was politically active
and his name was on a list of Tehran University staff who supported Mir Hossein
Mousavi according to Newsweek. The London Times reports that Dr. Ali-Mohammadi
told his students to speak out against the unjust elections. He stated "We have
to stand up to this lot. Don't be afraid of a bullet. It only hurts at the
beginning." Iran seems to be systematically assassinating high level professors
and doctors who speak out against the regime of President Ahmadinejad. However,
Iran proclaims that Israel and America used the "killing as a means of thwarting
the country's nuclear program" per Newsweek.
Died 2010
#102
John (Jack) P. Wheeler III, 66. last seen Dec. 30 found dead in a Delaware landfill,
fought to get the Vietnam Memorial built and served in two Bush administrations.
His death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del. police. Wheeler graduated
from West Point in 1966, and had a law degree from Yale and a business degree
from Harvard. His military career included serving in the office of the
Secretary of Defense and writing a manual on the effectiveness of biological and
chemical weapons, which recommended that the United States not use biological
weapons.
#101
Mark A. Smith, 45. Died Nov.
15 renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher has died after being hit by a car
in Ohio. Smith was a pathology professor at Case Western Reserve University and
director of basic science research at the university's memory and cognition
center. He also was executive director of the American Aging Association and
co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. He is listed as the
No. 3 "most prolific" Alzheimer's disease researcher, with 405 papers written,
by the international medical Journal.
#100
Chitra Chauhan, 33.
Died Nov. 15 was found dead in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple
Terrace hotel, police said. Chauhan left a suicide note saying she used cyanide.
Hazmat team officials said the cyanide was found only in granular form, meaning
it was not considered dangerous outside of the room it was found in. The
chemical is considered more dangerous in a liquid or gas form. Potassium
Cyanide, the apparent cause of death, is a chemical commonly used by
universities in teaching chemistry and conducting research, but it was not used
in the research projects she was working on. Chauhan, a molecular biologist, was
a post-doctoral researcher in the Global Health department in the College of
Public Health. She earned her doctorate from the Institute of Genomics and
Integrative Biology in New Delhi, India, in 2005, then studied mosquitoes and
disease transmission at the University of Notre Dame.
#99
Franco Cerrina, 62. Died July 12 was found dead in a lab at BU’s Photonics
Center on Monday morning. The cause of death is not yet known, but have ruled
out homicide. Cerrina joined the faculty of BU in 2008 after spending 24 years
on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-founded five
companies, including NimbleGen Systems, Genetic Assemblies (merged with Codon
Devices in 2006), Codon Devices, Biolitho, and Gen9, according to Nanowerk News.
NimbleGen, a Madison, WI-based provider of DNA microarray technology, was sold
to Basel, Switzerland-based Roche in 2007 for $272.5 million. Cerrina, chairman
of the electrical and computer engineering department, came to BU two years ago
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a leading scholar in optics,
lithography, and nanotechnology, according to his biography on the university
website. The scholar was responsible for establishing a new laboratory in the
Photonics Center.
#98 Vajinder Toor, 34. Died April 26 shot and killed outside his home in Branford, Conn. Toor worked at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York before joining Yale.
#97
Joseph Morrissey, 46. Died April 6 as a victim of a home invasion. The autopsy
revealed that the professor died from a stab wound. Although the cause of death
was first identified as a gun shot wound, the autopsy revealed that the
professor died from a stab wound. Morrissey joined NSU in May 2009 as an
associate professor and taught one elective class on immunopharmacology in the
College of Pharmacy.
#96
Maria Ragland Davis, 52.
Died February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop. Her background was in chemical engineering and
biochemistry, and she specialized in plant pathology and biotechnology
applications. She had a doctorate in biochemistry and had worked as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Monsanto Company in St. Louis. She was hired
at the University of Alabama after a seven-year stint as a senior scientist in
the plant-science department at Research Genetics Inc. (later Invitrogen), also
in Huntsville.
#95
Gopi K. Podila, 54. Died
February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop, Indian American biologist, noted academician, and
faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He listed his
research interests as engineering tree biomass for bioenergy, functional
genomics of plant-microbe interactions, plant molecular biology and
biotechnology. In particular, Padila studied genes that regulate growth in fast
growing trees, especially poplar and aspen. He has advocated prospective use of
fast growing trees and grasses as an alternative to corn sources for producing
ethanol.
#94
Adriel D. Johnson Sr. 52.
Died February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop. His research involved aspects of gastrointestinal
physiology specifically pancreatic function in vertebrates.
#94-96
Neurobiologist Amy Bishop, 45,
murdered three fellow scientists February 13 after being denied tenure. Dead
biology professors are: G. K. Podila, the department’s chairman, a native of
India; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr.
Died 2009
#93
Keith Fagnou, 38. Died
November 11 of H1N1. His research focused on improving the preparation of
complex molecules for petrochemical, pharmaceutical or industrial uses. Keith's
advanced and out--of-the-box thinking overturned prior ideas of what is possible
in the chemistry field.
#92
Stephen Lagakos, 63. Died
October 12 in an auto collision, wife, Regina, 61, and his mother, Helen, 94,
were also killed in the crash, as was the driver of the other car, Stephen
Krause, 52, of Keene, N.H. Lagakos centered his efforts on several fronts in
the fight against AIDS particularly how and when HIV-infected women transmitted
the virus to their children. In addition, he developed sophisticated methods to
improve the accuracy of estimated HIV incidence rates. He also contributed to
broadening access to antiretroviral drugs to people in developing
countries.
#91
Malcolm Casadaban, 60. Died
Sept. 13 of plague. Casadaban, a renowned molecular geneticist with a
passion for new research, had been working to develop an even stronger vaccine
for the plague. The medical center says the plague bacteria he worked with was a
weakened strain that isn't known to cause illness in healthy adults. The strain
was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for laboratory
studies.
#90
Wallace L. Pannier, 81. Died
Aug. 6 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.
#89
August "Gus" Watanabe, 67.
Died June 9, found dead outside a cabin in Brown County. Friends discovered
the body, a .38-caliber handgun and a three-page note at the scene. They said he
had been depressed following the death last month of his daughter Nan Reiko
Watanabe Lewis. She died at age 44 while recovering from elective surgery.
Watanabe was one of the five highest-paid officers of Indianapolis
pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly and Co. when he retired in 2003.
#88
Caroline Coffey, 28. Died
June 3, from massive cuts to her throat. Hikers found the body of the
Cornell Univ. post-doctoral bio-medicine researcher along a wooded trail in the
park, just outside Ithaca, N.Y., where the Ivy League school is located. Her
husband was hospitalized under guard after a police chase and their apartment
set on fire.
#87
Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi,
53. Died February 14, of "suspicious" causes. Dr. Noah (formerly Nasser
Talebzadeh Ordoubadi) is described in his American biography as a pioneer of
Mind-Body-Quantum medicine who lectured in five countries and ran a successful
health care center General Medical Clinics Inc. in King County, Washington for
15 years after suffering a heart attack in 1989. Among his notable
accomplishments was discovering an antitoxin treatment for
bioweapons.
Died 2008
#86
Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62.
Died July 29, of an overdose. He committed suicide prior to formal charges
being filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an alleged criminal
connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Ivins was likely solely responsible for
the deaths of five persons, and the injury of dozens of others, resulting from
the mailings of several anonymous letters to members of Congress and members of
the media in September and October, 2001, which letters contained Bacillus
anthracis, commonly referred to as anthrax. Ivins was a coinventor on two US
patents for anthrax vaccine technology.
#84 & 85
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23. Died July 3, after being bound, gagged, stabbed and set
alight. Laurent, a student in the proteins that cause infectious disease,
had been stabbed 196 times with half of them being administered to his back
after he was dead. Gabriel, who hoped to become an expert in ecofriendly fuels,
suffered 47 separate injuries.
Died 2007
#83:
Yongsheng Li, age 29.
Died: sometime after 4 p.m. on March 10, when he was last seen as a result of unknown causes. He was found in a pond between the
Women's Sports Complex and State Botanical Gardens on South Milledge Avenue
Sunday and had been missing 16 days. Li was a doctoral student from China who
studied receptor cells in Regents Professor David Puett's biochemistry and
molecular biology laboratory.
#82:
Dr. Mario Alberto Vargas
Olvera, age 52. Died: Oct. 6,
2007 as a result of several blunt-force injuries to
his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found in his home. He was a nationally and
internationally recognized biologist.
Died 2006
#81:
Yoram
Kaufman, age 57 (one day before his 58th
birthday). Died: May 31, 2006 when he was struck by
an automobile while riding his bicycle near the Goddard center's campus in
Greenbelt. Dr. Kaufman began working at the space flight center in 1979 and
spent his entire career there as a research scientist. His primary fields were
meteorology and climate change, with a specialty in analyzing aerosols --
airborne solid and liquid particles in the atmosphere. In recent years, he was
senior atmospheric scientist in the Earth-Sun Exploration Division and played a
key role in the development of NASA's Terra satellite, which collects data about
the atmosphere.
#80:
Lee Jong-woo, age 61. Died: May 22, 2006 after
suffering a blood clot on the brain. Lee was spearheading the organization's
fight against global threats from bird flu, AIDS and other infectious diseases.
WHO director-general since 2003, Lee was his country's top international
official. The affable South Korean, who liked to lighten his press conferences
with jokes, was a keen sportsman with no history of ill-health, according to
officials.
Died 2005
#79: Leonid Strachunsky. Died: June 8, 2005 after being hit on the head with a champagne bottle. Strachunsky specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons. Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where hed come from Smolensk en route to the United States. Investigators are looking for a connection between the murder of this leading bio weapons researcher and the hepatitis outbreak in Tver, Russia.
#78:
Robert J.
Lull, age 66. Died: May 19,
2005 of multiple stab wounds. Despite his missing
car and apparent credit card theft, homicide Inspector Holly Pera said
investigators aren't convinced that robbery was the sole motive for Lull's
killing. She said a robber would typically have taken more valuables from Lull's
home than what the killer left with. Lull had been chief of nuclear medicine at
San Francisco General Hospital since 1990 and served as a radiology professor at
UCSF. He was past president of the American College of Nuclear Physicians and
the San Francisco Medical Society and served as editor of the medical society's
journal, San Francisco Medicine, from 1997 to 1999. Lee Lull said her former
husband was a proponent of nuclear power and loved to debate his political
positions with others. #77:
Todd Kauppila, age 41. Died: May 8, 2005 of
hemorrhagic pancreatitis at the Los Alamos hospital, according to the state
medical examiner's office. Picture of him was not available to due secret
nature of his work. This is his funeral picture. His death came two days after
Kauppila publicly rejoiced over news that the lab's director was leaving.
Kauppila was fired by director Pete Nanos on Sept. 23, 2004 following a security
scandal. Kauppila said he was fired because he did not immediately return from
a family vacation during a lab investigation into two classified computer disks
that were thought to be missing. The apparent security breach forced Nanos to
shut down the lab for several weeks. Kauppila claimed he was made a scapegoat
over the disks, which investigators concluded never existed. The mistake was
blamed on a clerical error. After he was fired, Kauppila accepted a job as a
contractor at Bechtel Nevada Corp., a research company that works with Los
Alamos and other national laboratories. He was also working on a new Scatter
Reduction Grids in Megavolt Radiography focused on metal plates or crossed grids
to act to stop the scattered radiation while allowing the unscattered or direct
rays to pass through with other scientists: Scott Watson (LANL, DX-3), Chuck
Lebeda (LANL, XTA), Alan Tubb (LANL, DX-8), and Mike Appleby (Tecomet Thermo
Electron Corp.)
#76:
David Banks, age 55.
Died: May 8, 2005. Banks, based in North Queensland, died in an airplane
crash, along with 14 others. He was known as an Agro Genius inventing the
mosquito trap used for cattle. Banks was the principal scientist with quarantine
authority, Biosecurity Australia, and heavily involved in protecting Australians
from unwanted diseases and pests. Most of Dr Banks' work involved preventing
potentially devastating diseases making their way into Australia. He had been
through Indonesia looking at the potential for foot and mouth disease to spread
through the archipelago and into Australia. Other diseases he had fought to keep
out of Australian livestock herds and fruit orchards include classical swine
fever, Nipah virus and Japanese encephalitis.#75: 
Dr. Douglas James Passaro, age 43. Died April 18,
2005 from unknown cause in Oak Park,
Illinois. Dr. Passaro was a brilliant epidemiologist who wanted to unlock the
secrets of a spiral-shaped bacteria that causes stomach disease. He was a
professor who challenged his students with real-life exercises in bioterrorism.
He was married to Dr. Sherry Nordstrom..
#74:
Geetha Angara, age 43. Died: February 8, 2005. This formerly missing
chemist was found in a Totowa, New Jersey water treatment plant's tank. Angara,
43, of Holmdel, was last seen on the night of Feb. 8 doing water quality tests
at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant in Totowa, where she worked for 12
years. Divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep sump opening at the bottom of one
of the emptied tanks. Investigators are treating Angara's death as a possible
homicide. Angara, a senior chemist with a doctorate from New York University,
was married and mother of three.
#73:
Jeong H. Im, age 72. Died: January 7, 2005. Korean Jeong H. Im, died of
multiple stab wounds to the chest before firefighters found in his body in the
trunk of a burning car on the third level of the Maryland Avenue Garage. A
retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri - Columbia
and primarily a protein chemist, MUPD with the assistance of the Columbia Police
Department and Columbia Fire Department are conducting a death investigation of
the incident. A "person of interest" described as a male 6'–6'2" wearing some
type of mask possible a painters mask or drywall type mask was seen in the area
of the Maryland Avenue Garage. Dr. Im was primarily a protein chemist and he was
a researcher in the field.
Died in 2004
#72:
Darwin Kenneth
Vest, born April 22, 1951, was an
internationally renowned entomologist, expert on hobo spiders and other
poisonous spiders and snakes. Darwin disappeared in the early morning hours of
June 3, 1999 while walking in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho (USA). The family
believes foul play was involved in his disappearance. A celebration of Darwin's
life was held in Idaho Falls and Moscow on the one-year anniversary of his
disappearance. The services included displays of Darwin's work and thank you
letters from school children and teachers. Memories of Darwin were shared by at
least a dozen speakers from around the world and concluded with the placing of
roses and a memorial wreath in the Snake River. A candlelight vigil was also
held that evening on the banks of the Snake River.
Darwin was declared legally dead the first week of March 2004 and now the family is in the process of obtaining restraining orders against several companies who saw fit to use his name and photos without permission. His brother David is legal conservator of the estate and his sister Rebecca is handling issues related to Eagle Rock Research and ongoing research projects.
Media help in locating Darwin is welcome. Continuing efforts to solve this mystery include recent DNA sampling. Stories about his disappearance continue to appear throughout the world. Issues surrounding missing adult investigations have received new attention following the tragedies of 911.
#s70-71:
Tom Thorne, age 64;
Beth Williams, age 53; Died: December 29, 2004. Two wild life
scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally
prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis were killed in a
snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
#69:
Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher. Died: December 21, 2004. Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot
dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala
University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in
Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell
into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local university,
was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was
pronounced dead.
#68:
John R. La Montagne, age 61.
Died: November 2, 2004. Died while in Mexico, no cause stated, later
disclosed as pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under
Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
#67: Matthew Allison, age 32. Died: October 13, 2004. Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store. It was no accident, Local 6 News has learned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses said the man left the store at about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car when it exploded. Investigators said they found a Duraflame log and propane canisters on the front passenger's seat. Allison had a college degree in molecular biology and biotechnology.
#66: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani, age 40. Died: September 5, 2004: Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. He was a practicing nuclear physicist since 1984.
#65: Professor John Clark, Age 52, Died: August 12, 2004. Found hanged in his holiday home. An expert in animal science and biotechnology where he developed techniques for the genetic modification of livestock; this work paved the way for the birth, in 1996, of Dolly the sheep, the first animal to have been cloned from an adult. Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world s leading animal biotechnology research centers. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame. He was put in charge of a project to produce human proteins (which could be used in the treatment of human diseases) in sheep's milk. Clark and his team focused their study on the production of the alpha-I-antitryps in protein, which is used for treatment of cystic fibrosis. Prof Clark also founded three spin-out firms from Roslin - PPL Therapeutics, Rosgen and Roslin BioMed.
#64:
Dr. John Badwey, age 54.
Died: July 21, 2004. Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed
disposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly
developed pneumonia like symptoms then died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard
Medical School specializing in infectious diseases.
#63: Dr. Bassem al-Mudares. Died: July 21, 2004. Mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq*. He was a Phd. chemist and had been tortured before being killed. He was a drug company worker who had a chemistry doctorate.
#62:
Professor Stephen Tabet, age 42. Died on
July 6, 2004 from an unknown illness.
He was an associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of
Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV
patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials
Network#61: Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died July 2,
2004 from unknown causes. He was a
Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam spray to
clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in
2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As an expert in
bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used against biological and
chemical agents.#60: 
Edward Hoffman, age 62. Died July 1,
2004 from unknown causes. Hoffman was
a professor and a scientist who also held leadership positions within the UCLA
medical community. He worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at
Washington University in St. Louis.
#59:
John Mullen, age 67. Died:
June 29, 2004. A Nuclear physicist poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. A
nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not
say how Mullen was exposed to the arsenic or where it came from. At the time of
his death he was doing contract work for Boeing.
#58: Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004. From Salisbury Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon. Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.
#57:
Dr. Assefa Tulu, age 45. Died: June 24, 2004. Dr. Tulu joined the health
department in 1997 and served for five years as the county's lone
epidemiologist. He was charged with trackcing the health of the county,
including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also
designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or
bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major health
concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few
years, and worked with the media to inform the public. Found face down, dead in
his office. The Dallas County Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic
stroke.
#56:
Thomas
Gold, age 84. Died: June 22, 2004.
Austrian born Thomas Gold famous over the years for a variety of bold theories
that flout conventional wisdom and reported in his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot
Biosphere," the idea challenges the accepted wisdom of how oil and natural gas
are formed and, along the way, proposes a new theory of the beginnings of life
on Earth and potentially on other planets. Long term battle with heart failure.
Gold's theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the
possibility of life on other planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets
within our own solar system. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell
University and was the founder (and for 20 years director) of Cornell Center for
Radiophysics and Space Research. He was also involved in air accident
investigations.
#55: Antonina Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25, 2004. A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died after an accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons. Vector has been a leading recipient of aid in an American program.
#54:
Dr. Eugene
Mallove, age 56. Died: May 14, 2004.
Autopsy confirmed Mallove died as a result of several blunt-force injuries to
his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found at the end of his driveway. Alt.
Energy Expert who was working on viable energy alternative program and
announcement. Norwich Free Academy graduate.Beaten to death during an alleged
robbery. Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He had
just published an "open letter" outlining the results of and reasons for his
last 15 years in the field of "new energy research." Dr. Mallove was convinced
it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy
device.
#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April 2004. Body found in three suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay. He was NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He emerged as one of the world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities.
#52: Ilsley Ingram, age 84. Died on April 12, 2004 from unknown causes. Ingram was Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London. Although his age is most likely the reason for his death, why wasn't this confirmed by the family in the news media?
#51: Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly, Died: April 2004. This distinguished Iraqi chemistry professor died in American custody from a sudden hit to the back of his head caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he died, but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or a pistol. His battered corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue and the cause of death was initially recorded as "brainstem compression". It was discovered that US doctors had made a 20cm incision in his skull.
#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004. Microbiologist crashed car into guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died: January 24, 2004. Died of massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class. It is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it "gave out". Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
#48:
Robert Shope, age 74. Died: January 23,
2004. Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant
complications. Later purported to have died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not
be hard to administer a drug that would cause Dr. Shope's lung transplant to
either be rejected or to cause complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led
the group of scientists who had an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the new
lab would keep in the nasty bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with Dr.
Mike Kiley on the UTMB Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade would be
complete the lab will host the most hazardous pathogens known to man especially
tropical and emerging diseases as well as bioweapons.
#47: Dr Richard Stevens, age 54. Died: January 6, 2004. He had disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has ruled. He was a hematologist. (hematologists analyze the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues e.g. bone marrow).
Died 2003
#46: Robert Aranosia, age 61. Died: December 18, 2003. While driving south on I-75 his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes. He was the Oakland County deputy medical examiner.
#45: Robert Leslie Burghoff, age 45. Died: November 20, 2003. Scientist. Killed by a hit and run driver that jumped the curb and ploughed into him in the 1600 block of South Braeswood, Texas. The driver was described as a short Hispanic man in his 50s with a slightly rounded face. He was studying the virus plaguing cruise ships.
#44:
Michael Perich, age 46. Died: October 11, 2003. Died in
one-vehicle car accident. The LSU West Nile research scientist was wearing his
seat belt and drowned. He was LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the
West Nile virus. Perich, who was known as one of the country's experts on
vector-borne diseases, had most recently led a crusade to keep down the effects
of West Nile virus and to get many of the Louisiana's parishes to work toward
forming mosquito
control districts.
#43:
David
Kelly, age 59. Died: July 18, 2003. British biological weapons
expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home.
Kelly was the Ministry of Defense's chief scientific officer and senior adviser
to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the Foreign Office's
non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological weapons to the UN
biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in
the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country,
but in the world.
#42:
Dr. Leland Rickman, age 47. Died: June 24, 2003. Rickman
died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all
sides by South Africa. 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 Mathews, 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 Assn. of California, was a multidisciplinary professor and
practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine,
epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.#41: 'Dr.
Roger' Died: Summer 2003. 'Roger' was pseudonym for this genetics scientist. He was 17 and
lived in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the unexplained object crashed. He
told a woman he worked with in 1977 named 'Kate' while employed by the Navy, who
he helped to clean up the crash site of the 1947 UFO. He subsequently went to
work for the government at this young age and ended up a geneticist working in
China Lake for the Navy. Although he lived in fear and hiding soon after he told
his story to Kate, he retired in late 1990s or early 2000's and she saw him
again once in early 2002 in San Diego. He told her she was in danger to talk to
him and he left the store. In 2003 she received a phone
call from his 'friend' who said he had been executed in his retirement home in
Connecticut. The body had been removed by a black government looking vehicle.
The home had been cleaned up and the body removed without any public notices of
his death or existence. Many disfigured and abnormal animals were found in the
desert near Groom Lake during his time there and after. Kate thought he might
have been doing this gruesome experimental work.#40: 
Carlo Urbani, age 46. Died: in April 2003
in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that
he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was
contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS
patients, he contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a
hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died. He was a
dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of
enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
Died 2002
#39: Roman Kuzmin. Died December 2002. A 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. He was studying to be an orthopedic surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at Waterbury Hospital said they were stunned to hear of his death Sunday evening and many couldn't believe the circumstances. Kuzmin left Vladivostok in September to study orthopedic surgical techniques at Waterbury Hospital under a Keggi Othopedic Foundation program. Dr. Kristaps Keggi, who organized the program, said Kuzmin was "very able, very bright - a superb student and a superb individual."
#38B:
Dr. David R.
Knibbs, age 49. Died: August 5, 2002. Respected pathobiologist
specializing in electron microscopy.
#38:
Steven
Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002. One of the country's leading
infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near
Centennial Airport. He was known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating
influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of the country's
leading infectious disease experts.
#37:
Dr. David
Wynn-Williams, age 55. Died: March 24, 2002. Hit by a car while
jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist with the
Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center. He was
studying the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes,
including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global
warming.
#35-36: Tanya Holzmayer, age 46, Died: February 28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco. While taking delivery of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer was shot and killed by a colleague, Guyang "Mathew" Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the US from Russia in 1989. Her research focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine. Holzmayer was focusing on helping create new drugs that interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS. One year earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management orders to fire Huang. Huang appeared from behind the deliveryman. He shot Holzmayer several times at close range in the chest and head. As Holzmayer fell in her doorway, Huang ran to a Ford Explorer and drove away. Less than an hour after the shooting, Huang called his wife, according to Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin. He told her about the shooting and that he was going to kill himself, then he hung up. Huang's wife called the emergency services and Foster City police used search dogs to comb the area. They ran into a jogger who had seen Huang's body lying off the walkway that locals call "The Levee." He had fired a single bullet into his head.
#34:
Dr. Ian Langford, age 40, Died:
February 12, 2002. Found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently
ransacked home A Russian who was a Senior Research Associate in CSERGE, UK. He
was a leading university research scientist working on Global Environment,
specializing in links between human health and the environment risk, was.
Specialist in leukemia and infections.
#33:
Dr.
Vladamir "Victor" Korshunov, age 56. Died: February 9, 2002. Found
dead on a Moscow street. Head was bashed in. Korshunov was head of the
microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found
dead in the entrance to his home with a head injury. On Feb. 9 the Russian
newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had probably invented a vaccine
protecting from any biological arm.
#32: David W. Barry, age 58, Died: January 28, 2002. Scientist who co-discovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS. Circumstance of Death are unknown.
#31: Dr. Ivan Glebov. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack. Well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
#30: Dr. Alexi Brushlinski. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Murdered in Moscow from bandit attack. Well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
Died 2001
#29
Dr. Benito
Que, age 52. Found: November 12, 2001.
Died: December 6, 2001. Found Comatose from what was called a mugging. Died
later in hospital. Found in the street near the laboratory where he worked at
the University of Miami Medical School. Among Dr. Que's friends and family there
is firm belief that Dr. Que was attacked by four men, at least one of whom had a
baseball bat. Dr. Que's death has now been officially ruled "natural", caused by
cardiac arrest. He was a cell biologist, involved in research on aids, oncology
research in the hematology department.
#28:
Dr. Vladimer
Pasechnik, age 64. Died: December 23,
2001. Found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village near his home. Two
different dates have been reported: November 21 and December 23. Death ruled
stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the #1 scientist in the
FSU's bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved with exhuming the
bodies of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu epidemic. Pasechnik died
six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. On November 23, 2001,
Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred two days
earlier. Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr. Christopher
Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke. Dr. Davis
was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time
of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research.
He had just founded a company like three other microbiologists working to
provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics. Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was the
boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5 patents on the militarized anthrax
used by the United States. Patrick is now a private biowarfare consultant to
the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by which anthrax spores
could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram. No other
country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per gram. The
anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall was
concentrated at one trillion spores per gram.
#27:
Dr. Don
Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December 16,
2001. Molecular Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard
University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found
on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved in
research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on November 16,
leaving the St. Jude's Children's Research Advisory Dinner at The Peabody Hotel
in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of
intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. Body found floating
one month later. Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body
of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist
was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis. On January 14, 2002
(almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced
that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley's death to be "accidental"; the result
of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith
said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on
construction signs on the bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was
missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs Dr. Wiley
hit.
#26:
Dr. Set Van
Nguyen, age 44. Died: December 14,
2001. Found dead in the airlock entrance to the walk-in refrigerator in the
laboratory he worked at in Victoria State, Australia. The room was full of
deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Room was
vented. Working on a vaccine to protect against biological weapons, or a weapon
itself. In January, 2001, the magazine Nature published information that
two scientists, Dr. Ron Jackson and Dr. Ian Ramshaw, using genetic manipulation
and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a
cousin of smallpox and Dr. Nguyen had worked for 15 years at the same Australian
facility. Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday, November 2nd,
the Washington Post reported: "Officials are now scrambling to determine how a
quiet, 61-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from
her job in a hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that
killed her this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the
factors common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the
mail or to the media.
#25:
Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December 10,
2001. Murdered by stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural home
Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high
priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was extremely
well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.
Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in the slashing
death.
#s22-24: Avishai Berkman, age 50. (no photo)
Amiramp Eldor, age 59 
Yaacov Matzner, age 54
All Died: November 24, 2001. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At about the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by terrorists; including the head of the Hematology department at Israel's Ichilov Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University School of Medicine. World experts in hematology and blood clotting. Five microbiologists in this list of the first eight people that died mysteriously in airplane crashes worked on cutting edge microbiology research; and, four of the five were doing virtually identical research; research that has global political and financial significance.
#21: Jeffrey Paris Wall, age 41. Died: November 6, 2001. Body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
#16-#20: Five Unnamed Microbiologists. Died: October 4, 2001. Four of Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia; business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or public health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people. #15: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz, Died: on May 7, 2001, cause not disclosed. He was an expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His main scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and biological properties of staphylococcal toxins, and included the immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment of tumors by Propionibacterium.
Died 2000
#14: Linda Reese, age 52. Died: December 25, 2000 three days after she studied a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after she returned home for the holidays. Dr. Reese was a Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.#13: Mike Thomas, age 35. Died: 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. #12: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62. Died: 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.
Died 1998
#11: 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, and in 1986 he joined the WHO to lead the global response against Aids. He became director of WHO's global program on Aids which later became the UNAids program. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier in 1998 in the media when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
#10: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., age 46. Died 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 also a member of the executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the Bio-safety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents. .
Died 1994 - 1996
#9: Sidney Harshman, age 67. Died: Dec. 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.
#s6-8: Mark Purdey, his Lawyer, and Veterinarian working with Purdey Die: CJD doctor Mark Purdey was familiar with the expression "abnormal brain protein." Purdey’s house was burned down, his lawyer on mad cow issues was driven off the road and died and the veterinarian in the UK BSE inquiry also died in a mysterious car crash. CJD specialist Dr C. Bruton was killed in a car crash just before he went public with a new research paper. The veterinarian on the case also died in a car crash. Purdey's new lawyer, too, had a car accident, but not fatal. Before Dr. Purdey’s death, he speculated that Dr. C. Bruton (#2 below) might have known more than what was revealed in his paper before he was killed.
#4-5
Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age 46. Died: May 7, 1996. Shot and killed, along with
his young daughter, in LaJolla, 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 and she was shot dead, also. The hit was
compared to other killings of Japanese in this country by muggers. Expert in
abnormal proteins in Alzheimer.
#3 Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi. Died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornel, he was hired to head the mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi's projects was filling payloads of scud missles with mycoplasma strains. In 1995, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the Israelis Mussad. His demise, or, neutralization was made to look like an accident. He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and was hit by a truck.
#2 Dr. C. Bruton, a CJD 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 was revealed in his paper.
#1
Jose Trias, Died: 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 "special ops" research. Grant
money that goes to HHMI is actually diverted to special black ops research
projects.
Silbermond
Alzheimer Leading Expert, Mark Smith, Dies in Car Crash
Suicide Victim That Prompted Cyanide Scare Identified as USF PhD
Police: USF Biologist Dies In An Apparent Suicide By Cyanide
A Previous Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect
Stephen Lagakos, International AIDS Researcher, Dies
Iranian Bioweapon Researcher Dies Suspiciously
Geneticist Malcolm J. Casadaban, Dead of PlagueGerm Warfare Scientist Wallace L. Pannier, Dead at 81Cornell Researcher/Microbiologist Found Dead in N.Y. Park
Murdered: Laurent Bonomo Studying Infectious Diseases
Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link (Leonid Strachunsky) to Hepatitis Outbreak
Mysterious Murder of Yet Another of the World’s Top Scientists (Dr. Lull) as China Declares Bird Flu Emergency and World Health Organization Warns of Pandemic
Not Much to go on in Slaying of Dr. Robert J. Lull
Former Los Alamos Scientist, Todd Kauppila, Dies
Top Scientist, David Banks, Among Dead
Victim, Dr. David Banks, Lauded as 'Brilliant Scientist'
Another Dead Epidemiologist — Dr. Douglas James Passaro, 43Navy Expert Aids MUPD with Im Case
US Secret Police Forces (SSB) Bomb Biochemical Plant Near Harvard University, ‘Murdered’ Scientist Dr. Don C. Wiley’s Pioneering Work Destroyed
Autopsy Points to Homicide in Chemist's Death
Missing N.J. Chemist, Angara, Found Dead In Water Tank
Squad Seeks Tips in Death of Researcher, Jeong H. Im
Burning Car Holds Body (of Jeong H. Im)
Car Crash Kills 2 Wildlife Scientists (Thorme/Williams)
Edwin "Tom" Thorne and his wife, Elizabeth William
John Mullen — Scientist Poisoned Wth Arsenic
Another Dead Scientist: John R. La Montagne, PhDAnother Dead Scientist — Matthew Allison, 32
"Red Death": History of Russian Secret WeaponsProfessor John Clark
Head of Dolly Clone Lab is Found Hanged
Doctor's Death Stuns Family, Friends
Air Crash Victim, Dr. Paul Norman, Was Weapons Expert
Dallas County Epidemiologist Tulu Dies
Body in 3 Suitcases Was NJ University Professor
Russian Scientist Dies in Ebola Accident at Former Weapons Lab
New Trial Possible in Bizarre Bomb Case (Don C. Wiley murder)
O.C. Smith Trial - Gavel to Gavel Coverage (Don C. Wiley murder)
Alt. Energy Expert Dr. Eugene Mallove Murdered
Another Dead Scientist — Vadake Srinivasan
Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, Expert on Mad Cow and Ebola, 62, Dies
Robert Shope, 74, Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies
Update on the Death of the Two Scientists (Shope and Kiley) This Week
Another Dead Scientist: Robert Leslie Burghoff
Another Dead Scientist: LSU W. Nile Researcher, Perich, Dies in Pickup Crash on I-12
In Memoriam. . . David Wynn-Williams 1946 - 2002David Wynn-Williams: Applying the Lessons of Antarctica to the Study of the Stars
Miscellaneous
List of Murdered Scientists
Dead Scientists
Missing / Dead Scientists
14 Dead Scientists - and Counting
Mysterious Deaths of Microbiologists
Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead
Dead Microbiologists Linked to Ethno-Specific BioWeapons
Russia's Poorly Guarded Past
A strange epidemic has flooded the industry of weird and unexplaned random deaths that may or may not be from natural causes. Most of these Medical experts are the best in their field and have political and or government ties! Most of these deaths beat the odds of randomness. Example is dying from a piano falling on you. However that may not be the case however, we find these highly unlikely! I
posted references at the end!
Died 2012
#119
Professor Dr. Richard Crowe, 60, died May 27 in an off-road accident in Arizona. Dr. Crowe
came to UH Hilo 25 years ago and helped launch the University’s undergraduate
astronomy program. is numerous publications and co-authored works added
significantly to the body of astronomical literature. He regularly trained UHH
student observers with the UH 24-inch telescope on Mauna Kea, and conducted many
research programs
on that telescope. In 2005, he won the AstroDay Excellence in Teaching Award for
his efforts. In 1991, Dr. Crowe was selected as a Fujio Matsuda Research Fellow
for his scholarly work on pulsating variable stars. Crowe was also active in the
community. He was a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Hilo Bay.#118
Gelareh Bagherzadeh,
30, died Jan. 17, when she was shot
outside her home. Detectives investigating the murder of an Iranian
molecular scientist gunned down in her car as she drove home believe she was
followed or that someone was waiting for her. Bagherzadeh was struck by a single
bullet that entered the passenger door window as she talked on her cell phone
with her ex-boyfriend. Bagherzadeh was a molecular genetic technology student at
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and also active in promoting Iranian
women's rights.Died 2011
#117
James S. Miller,
58, died Oct. 9, as a result of being
attacked during a home invasion. Professor James Steven Miller came to
Goshen College to teach in 1980, the same year he completed his doctorate degree
in medical biochemistry at Ohio State University. He received his undergraduate
degree in chemistry in 1975 from Bluffton (Ohio) University. The Goshen College
Board of Directors granted Professor Miller tenure in June 1985. He primarily
taught upper-level courses
taken by students in nursing, pre-medical and other health-related
tracks.#116
Zachary Greene Warfield, 35,
died July 4 in a boating accident on the Potomac River. Zack was a
co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors for Omnis, Inc., a McLean,
VA-based strategic consulting firm for the intelligence, defense and national
security communities. He spearheaded major research initiatives and, in addition
to helping steer the company, was directly involved in numerous projects,
including analytic training and technology consulting. Prior to founding Omnis,
Zack was an engineer and analyst for the U.S. Government and private industry.
As a science and technology analyst, he assessed missile and space systems,
managed technical contracts, and investigated Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) program as a member of the Iraq Survey
Group, serving in Baghdad on two separate occasions.As an engineer, he worked on aerospace projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and private industry. Most notably, Zack designed critical guidance systems that ensured a successful landing for the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity; his name is inscribed on one of the rovers, and remains on Mars today.
#115
Jonathan Widom, 55, died
July 18 of an apparent heart attack. He was a professor of Molecular
Biosciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern
University. Widom focused on how DNA is packaged into chromosomes -- and the
location of nucleosomes specifically. Colleagues said the work has had profound
implications for how genes are able to be read in the cell and how mutations
outside of the regions that encode proteins can lead to errors and
disease.#112-114 Fanjun Meng, 29, and Chunyang Zhang, 26, drowned in a Branson hotel swimming pool. Both were from China and working in the anatomic pathology lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Meng was a visiting scholar and his wife, Zhang, was a research specialist, according to information at the university's website. Meng was working on research looking at a possible link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease.Police said the investigation is ongoing as to the cause of the drowning but had said earlier there was no sign of foul play.
#107-111 Andrei Tropinov, Sergei Rizhov, Gennadi Benyok, Nicolai Tronov and Valery Lyalin, in a Russian plane crash. The five scientists were employed at the Hydropress factory, a member of Russia's state nuclear corporation and had assisted in the development of Iran's nuclear plant. Theyworked at the Bushehr nuclear power plant and helped to complete construction of it. Officially Russian investigators say that human error and technical malfunction caused the deadly crash, which killed 45 and left 8 passengers surviving.
#106 Rodger Lynn Dickey, 56, from an apparent suicide Mar. 18 after he jumped from the Gorge Bridge. Dickey was a senior nuclear engineer with over 30 years of experience in support of the design, construction, start-up, and operation of commercial and government nuclear facilities. His expertise was in nuclear safety programmatic assessment, regulatory compliance, hazard assessment, safety analysis, and safety basis documentation. He completed project tasks in nuclear engineering design and application, nuclear waste management, project management, and risk management. His technical support experience included nuclear facility licensing, radiation protection, health and safety program assessments, operational readiness assessments, and systems engineering.
#105
Gregory Stone, 54, from an unknown illness Feb. 17. Stone, who was quoted
extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak,
was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System. Stone quickly
established himself as an internationally respected coastal scientist who
produced cutting-edge research and attracted millions of dollars of research
support to LSU. As part of his research, he and the CSI Field Support Group
developed a series of offshore instrumented stations to monitor wind, waves and
currents that impact the Louisiana coast. The system is used by many fishermen
and scientists to monitor wind, waves and currents off the Louisiana coast.
Stone was a great researcher, teacher, mentor and family man.#104
Bradley C.
Livezey, 56, died in a car crash Feb.
8. Livezey knew nearly everything about the songs of birds and was
considered the top anatomist. Livezey, curator of The Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, never gave up researching unsolved mysteries of the world's 20,000 or
so avian species. Carnegie curator since 1993, Livezey oversaw a collection of
nearly 195,000 specimens of birds, the country's ninth largest. Livezey died in
a two-car crash on Route 910, authorities said. An autopsy revealed he died from
injuries to the head and trunk, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office
said. Northern Regional Police are investigating. #103
Dr Massoud Ali
Mohammadi, 50, was assassinated Jan. 11
when a remote-control bomb inside a motorcycle near his car was detonated.
This professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was politically active
and his name was on a list of Tehran University staff who supported Mir Hossein
Mousavi according to Newsweek. The London Times reports that Dr. Ali-Mohammadi
told his students to speak out against the unjust elections. He stated "We have
to stand up to this lot. Don't be afraid of a bullet. It only hurts at the
beginning." Iran seems to be systematically assassinating high level professors
and doctors who speak out against the regime of President Ahmadinejad. However,
Iran proclaims that Israel and America used the "killing as a means of thwarting
the country's nuclear program" per Newsweek. Died 2010
#102
John (Jack) P. Wheeler III, 66. last seen Dec. 30 found dead in a Delaware landfill,
fought to get the Vietnam Memorial built and served in two Bush administrations.
His death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del. police. Wheeler graduated
from West Point in 1966, and had a law degree from Yale and a business degree
from Harvard. His military career included serving in the office of the
Secretary of Defense and writing a manual on the effectiveness of biological and
chemical weapons, which recommended that the United States not use biological
weapons.#101
Mark A. Smith, 45. Died Nov.
15 renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher has died after being hit by a car
in Ohio. Smith was a pathology professor at Case Western Reserve University and
director of basic science research at the university's memory and cognition
center. He also was executive director of the American Aging Association and
co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. He is listed as the
No. 3 "most prolific" Alzheimer's disease researcher, with 405 papers written,
by the international medical Journal. #100
Chitra Chauhan, 33.
Died Nov. 15 was found dead in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple
Terrace hotel, police said. Chauhan left a suicide note saying she used cyanide.
Hazmat team officials said the cyanide was found only in granular form, meaning
it was not considered dangerous outside of the room it was found in. The
chemical is considered more dangerous in a liquid or gas form. Potassium
Cyanide, the apparent cause of death, is a chemical commonly used by
universities in teaching chemistry and conducting research, but it was not used
in the research projects she was working on. Chauhan, a molecular biologist, was
a post-doctoral researcher in the Global Health department in the College of
Public Health. She earned her doctorate from the Institute of Genomics and
Integrative Biology in New Delhi, India, in 2005, then studied mosquitoes and
disease transmission at the University of Notre Dame.#99
Franco Cerrina, 62. Died July 12 was found dead in a lab at BU’s Photonics
Center on Monday morning. The cause of death is not yet known, but have ruled
out homicide. Cerrina joined the faculty of BU in 2008 after spending 24 years
on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-founded five
companies, including NimbleGen Systems, Genetic Assemblies (merged with Codon
Devices in 2006), Codon Devices, Biolitho, and Gen9, according to Nanowerk News.
NimbleGen, a Madison, WI-based provider of DNA microarray technology, was sold
to Basel, Switzerland-based Roche in 2007 for $272.5 million. Cerrina, chairman
of the electrical and computer engineering department, came to BU two years ago
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a leading scholar in optics,
lithography, and nanotechnology, according to his biography on the university
website. The scholar was responsible for establishing a new laboratory in the
Photonics Center.#98 Vajinder Toor, 34. Died April 26 shot and killed outside his home in Branford, Conn. Toor worked at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York before joining Yale.
#97
Joseph Morrissey, 46. Died April 6 as a victim of a home invasion. The autopsy
revealed that the professor died from a stab wound. Although the cause of death
was first identified as a gun shot wound, the autopsy revealed that the
professor died from a stab wound. Morrissey joined NSU in May 2009 as an
associate professor and taught one elective class on immunopharmacology in the
College of Pharmacy.#96
Maria Ragland Davis, 52.
Died February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop. Her background was in chemical engineering and
biochemistry, and she specialized in plant pathology and biotechnology
applications. She had a doctorate in biochemistry and had worked as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Monsanto Company in St. Louis. She was hired
at the University of Alabama after a seven-year stint as a senior scientist in
the plant-science department at Research Genetics Inc. (later Invitrogen), also
in Huntsville.#95
Gopi K. Podila, 54. Died
February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop, Indian American biologist, noted academician, and
faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He listed his
research interests as engineering tree biomass for bioenergy, functional
genomics of plant-microbe interactions, plant molecular biology and
biotechnology. In particular, Padila studied genes that regulate growth in fast
growing trees, especially poplar and aspen. He has advocated prospective use of
fast growing trees and grasses as an alternative to corn sources for producing
ethanol. #94
Adriel D. Johnson Sr. 52.
Died February 13 at the hand of neurobiologist Amy Bishop. His research involved aspects of gastrointestinal
physiology specifically pancreatic function in vertebrates. #94-96
Neurobiologist Amy Bishop, 45,
murdered three fellow scientists February 13 after being denied tenure. Dead
biology professors are: G. K. Podila, the department’s chairman, a native of
India; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr.Died 2009
#93
Keith Fagnou, 38. Died
November 11 of H1N1. His research focused on improving the preparation of
complex molecules for petrochemical, pharmaceutical or industrial uses. Keith's
advanced and out--of-the-box thinking overturned prior ideas of what is possible
in the chemistry field.#92
Stephen Lagakos, 63. Died
October 12 in an auto collision, wife, Regina, 61, and his mother, Helen, 94,
were also killed in the crash, as was the driver of the other car, Stephen
Krause, 52, of Keene, N.H. Lagakos centered his efforts on several fronts in
the fight against AIDS particularly how and when HIV-infected women transmitted
the virus to their children. In addition, he developed sophisticated methods to
improve the accuracy of estimated HIV incidence rates. He also contributed to
broadening access to antiretroviral drugs to people in developing
countries.#91
Malcolm Casadaban, 60. Died
Sept. 13 of plague. Casadaban, a renowned molecular geneticist with a
passion for new research, had been working to develop an even stronger vaccine
for the plague. The medical center says the plague bacteria he worked with was a
weakened strain that isn't known to cause illness in healthy adults. The strain
was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for laboratory
studies.#90
Wallace L. Pannier, 81. Died
Aug. 6 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.#89
August "Gus" Watanabe, 67.
Died June 9, found dead outside a cabin in Brown County. Friends discovered
the body, a .38-caliber handgun and a three-page note at the scene. They said he
had been depressed following the death last month of his daughter Nan Reiko
Watanabe Lewis. She died at age 44 while recovering from elective surgery.
Watanabe was one of the five highest-paid officers of Indianapolis
pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly and Co. when he retired in 2003.
#88
Caroline Coffey, 28. Died
June 3, from massive cuts to her throat. Hikers found the body of the
Cornell Univ. post-doctoral bio-medicine researcher along a wooded trail in the
park, just outside Ithaca, N.Y., where the Ivy League school is located. Her
husband was hospitalized under guard after a police chase and their apartment
set on fire.#87
Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi,
53. Died February 14, of "suspicious" causes. Dr. Noah (formerly Nasser
Talebzadeh Ordoubadi) is described in his American biography as a pioneer of
Mind-Body-Quantum medicine who lectured in five countries and ran a successful
health care center General Medical Clinics Inc. in King County, Washington for
15 years after suffering a heart attack in 1989. Among his notable
accomplishments was discovering an antitoxin treatment for
bioweapons.Died 2008
#86
Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62.
Died July 29, of an overdose. He committed suicide prior to formal charges
being filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an alleged criminal
connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Ivins was likely solely responsible for
the deaths of five persons, and the injury of dozens of others, resulting from
the mailings of several anonymous letters to members of Congress and members of
the media in September and October, 2001, which letters contained Bacillus
anthracis, commonly referred to as anthrax. Ivins was a coinventor on two US
patents for anthrax vaccine technology.#84 & 85
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23. Died July 3, after being bound, gagged, stabbed and set
alight. Laurent, a student in the proteins that cause infectious disease,
had been stabbed 196 times with half of them being administered to his back
after he was dead. Gabriel, who hoped to become an expert in ecofriendly fuels,
suffered 47 separate injuries.Died 2007
#83:
Yongsheng Li, age 29.
Died: sometime after 4 p.m. on March 10, when he was last seen as a result of unknown causes. He was found in a pond between the
Women's Sports Complex and State Botanical Gardens on South Milledge Avenue
Sunday and had been missing 16 days. Li was a doctoral student from China who
studied receptor cells in Regents Professor David Puett's biochemistry and
molecular biology laboratory.#82:
Dr. Mario Alberto Vargas
Olvera, age 52. Died: Oct. 6,
2007 as a result of several blunt-force injuries to
his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found in his home. He was a nationally and
internationally recognized biologist. Died 2006
#81:
Yoram
Kaufman, age 57 (one day before his 58th
birthday). Died: May 31, 2006 when he was struck by
an automobile while riding his bicycle near the Goddard center's campus in
Greenbelt. Dr. Kaufman began working at the space flight center in 1979 and
spent his entire career there as a research scientist. His primary fields were
meteorology and climate change, with a specialty in analyzing aerosols --
airborne solid and liquid particles in the atmosphere. In recent years, he was
senior atmospheric scientist in the Earth-Sun Exploration Division and played a
key role in the development of NASA's Terra satellite, which collects data about
the atmosphere. #80:
Lee Jong-woo, age 61. Died: May 22, 2006 after
suffering a blood clot on the brain. Lee was spearheading the organization's
fight against global threats from bird flu, AIDS and other infectious diseases.
WHO director-general since 2003, Lee was his country's top international
official. The affable South Korean, who liked to lighten his press conferences
with jokes, was a keen sportsman with no history of ill-health, according to
officials.Died 2005
#79: Leonid Strachunsky. Died: June 8, 2005 after being hit on the head with a champagne bottle. Strachunsky specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons. Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where hed come from Smolensk en route to the United States. Investigators are looking for a connection between the murder of this leading bio weapons researcher and the hepatitis outbreak in Tver, Russia.
#78:
Robert J.
Lull, age 66. Died: May 19,
2005 of multiple stab wounds. Despite his missing
car and apparent credit card theft, homicide Inspector Holly Pera said
investigators aren't convinced that robbery was the sole motive for Lull's
killing. She said a robber would typically have taken more valuables from Lull's
home than what the killer left with. Lull had been chief of nuclear medicine at
San Francisco General Hospital since 1990 and served as a radiology professor at
UCSF. He was past president of the American College of Nuclear Physicians and
the San Francisco Medical Society and served as editor of the medical society's
journal, San Francisco Medicine, from 1997 to 1999. Lee Lull said her former
husband was a proponent of nuclear power and loved to debate his political
positions with others. #77:
Todd Kauppila, age 41. Died: May 8, 2005 of
hemorrhagic pancreatitis at the Los Alamos hospital, according to the state
medical examiner's office. Picture of him was not available to due secret
nature of his work. This is his funeral picture. His death came two days after
Kauppila publicly rejoiced over news that the lab's director was leaving.
Kauppila was fired by director Pete Nanos on Sept. 23, 2004 following a security
scandal. Kauppila said he was fired because he did not immediately return from
a family vacation during a lab investigation into two classified computer disks
that were thought to be missing. The apparent security breach forced Nanos to
shut down the lab for several weeks. Kauppila claimed he was made a scapegoat
over the disks, which investigators concluded never existed. The mistake was
blamed on a clerical error. After he was fired, Kauppila accepted a job as a
contractor at Bechtel Nevada Corp., a research company that works with Los
Alamos and other national laboratories. He was also working on a new Scatter
Reduction Grids in Megavolt Radiography focused on metal plates or crossed grids
to act to stop the scattered radiation while allowing the unscattered or direct
rays to pass through with other scientists: Scott Watson (LANL, DX-3), Chuck
Lebeda (LANL, XTA), Alan Tubb (LANL, DX-8), and Mike Appleby (Tecomet Thermo
Electron Corp.)#76:
David Banks, age 55.
Died: May 8, 2005. Banks, based in North Queensland, died in an airplane
crash, along with 14 others. He was known as an Agro Genius inventing the
mosquito trap used for cattle. Banks was the principal scientist with quarantine
authority, Biosecurity Australia, and heavily involved in protecting Australians
from unwanted diseases and pests. Most of Dr Banks' work involved preventing
potentially devastating diseases making their way into Australia. He had been
through Indonesia looking at the potential for foot and mouth disease to spread
through the archipelago and into Australia. Other diseases he had fought to keep
out of Australian livestock herds and fruit orchards include classical swine
fever, Nipah virus and Japanese encephalitis.#75: Dr. Douglas James Passaro, age 43. Died April 18,
2005 from unknown cause in Oak Park,
Illinois. Dr. Passaro was a brilliant epidemiologist who wanted to unlock the
secrets of a spiral-shaped bacteria that causes stomach disease. He was a
professor who challenged his students with real-life exercises in bioterrorism.
He was married to Dr. Sherry Nordstrom..
#74:
Geetha Angara, age 43. Died: February 8, 2005. This formerly missing
chemist was found in a Totowa, New Jersey water treatment plant's tank. Angara,
43, of Holmdel, was last seen on the night of Feb. 8 doing water quality tests
at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant in Totowa, where she worked for 12
years. Divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep sump opening at the bottom of one
of the emptied tanks. Investigators are treating Angara's death as a possible
homicide. Angara, a senior chemist with a doctorate from New York University,
was married and mother of three.#73:
Jeong H. Im, age 72. Died: January 7, 2005. Korean Jeong H. Im, died of
multiple stab wounds to the chest before firefighters found in his body in the
trunk of a burning car on the third level of the Maryland Avenue Garage. A
retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri - Columbia
and primarily a protein chemist, MUPD with the assistance of the Columbia Police
Department and Columbia Fire Department are conducting a death investigation of
the incident. A "person of interest" described as a male 6'–6'2" wearing some
type of mask possible a painters mask or drywall type mask was seen in the area
of the Maryland Avenue Garage. Dr. Im was primarily a protein chemist and he was
a researcher in the field.Died in 2004
#72:
Darwin Kenneth
Vest, born April 22, 1951, was an
internationally renowned entomologist, expert on hobo spiders and other
poisonous spiders and snakes. Darwin disappeared in the early morning hours of
June 3, 1999 while walking in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho (USA). The family
believes foul play was involved in his disappearance. A celebration of Darwin's
life was held in Idaho Falls and Moscow on the one-year anniversary of his
disappearance. The services included displays of Darwin's work and thank you
letters from school children and teachers. Memories of Darwin were shared by at
least a dozen speakers from around the world and concluded with the placing of
roses and a memorial wreath in the Snake River. A candlelight vigil was also
held that evening on the banks of the Snake River.Darwin was declared legally dead the first week of March 2004 and now the family is in the process of obtaining restraining orders against several companies who saw fit to use his name and photos without permission. His brother David is legal conservator of the estate and his sister Rebecca is handling issues related to Eagle Rock Research and ongoing research projects.
Media help in locating Darwin is welcome. Continuing efforts to solve this mystery include recent DNA sampling. Stories about his disappearance continue to appear throughout the world. Issues surrounding missing adult investigations have received new attention following the tragedies of 911.
#s70-71:
Tom Thorne, age 64;
Beth Williams, age 53; Died: December 29, 2004. Two wild life
scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally
prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis were killed in a
snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.#69:
Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher. Died: December 21, 2004. Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot
dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala
University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in
Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell
into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local university,
was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was
pronounced dead.#68:
John R. La Montagne, age 61.
Died: November 2, 2004. Died while in Mexico, no cause stated, later
disclosed as pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under
Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.#67: Matthew Allison, age 32. Died: October 13, 2004. Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store. It was no accident, Local 6 News has learned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses said the man left the store at about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car when it exploded. Investigators said they found a Duraflame log and propane canisters on the front passenger's seat. Allison had a college degree in molecular biology and biotechnology.
#66: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani, age 40. Died: September 5, 2004: Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. He was a practicing nuclear physicist since 1984.
#65: Professor John Clark, Age 52, Died: August 12, 2004. Found hanged in his holiday home. An expert in animal science and biotechnology where he developed techniques for the genetic modification of livestock; this work paved the way for the birth, in 1996, of Dolly the sheep, the first animal to have been cloned from an adult. Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world s leading animal biotechnology research centers. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame. He was put in charge of a project to produce human proteins (which could be used in the treatment of human diseases) in sheep's milk. Clark and his team focused their study on the production of the alpha-I-antitryps in protein, which is used for treatment of cystic fibrosis. Prof Clark also founded three spin-out firms from Roslin - PPL Therapeutics, Rosgen and Roslin BioMed.
#64:
Dr. John Badwey, age 54.
Died: July 21, 2004. Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed
disposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly
developed pneumonia like symptoms then died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard
Medical School specializing in infectious diseases.#63: Dr. Bassem al-Mudares. Died: July 21, 2004. Mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq*. He was a Phd. chemist and had been tortured before being killed. He was a drug company worker who had a chemistry doctorate.
#62:
Professor Stephen Tabet, age 42. Died on
July 6, 2004 from an unknown illness.
He was an associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of
Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV
patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials
Network#61: Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died July 2,
2004 from unknown causes. He was a
Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam spray to
clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in
2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As an expert in
bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used against biological and
chemical agents.#60: Edward Hoffman, age 62. Died July 1,
2004 from unknown causes. Hoffman was
a professor and a scientist who also held leadership positions within the UCLA
medical community. He worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at
Washington University in St. Louis.#59:
John Mullen, age 67. Died:
June 29, 2004. A Nuclear physicist poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. A
nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not
say how Mullen was exposed to the arsenic or where it came from. At the time of
his death he was doing contract work for Boeing.#58: Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004. From Salisbury Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon. Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.
#57:
Dr. Assefa Tulu, age 45. Died: June 24, 2004. Dr. Tulu joined the health
department in 1997 and served for five years as the county's lone
epidemiologist. He was charged with trackcing the health of the county,
including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also
designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or
bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major health
concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few
years, and worked with the media to inform the public. Found face down, dead in
his office. The Dallas County Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic
stroke.#56:
Thomas
Gold, age 84. Died: June 22, 2004.
Austrian born Thomas Gold famous over the years for a variety of bold theories
that flout conventional wisdom and reported in his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot
Biosphere," the idea challenges the accepted wisdom of how oil and natural gas
are formed and, along the way, proposes a new theory of the beginnings of life
on Earth and potentially on other planets. Long term battle with heart failure.
Gold's theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the
possibility of life on other planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets
within our own solar system. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell
University and was the founder (and for 20 years director) of Cornell Center for
Radiophysics and Space Research. He was also involved in air accident
investigations.#55: Antonina Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25, 2004. A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died after an accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons. Vector has been a leading recipient of aid in an American program.
#54:
Dr. Eugene
Mallove, age 56. Died: May 14, 2004.
Autopsy confirmed Mallove died as a result of several blunt-force injuries to
his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found at the end of his driveway. Alt.
Energy Expert who was working on viable energy alternative program and
announcement. Norwich Free Academy graduate.Beaten to death during an alleged
robbery. Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He had
just published an "open letter" outlining the results of and reasons for his
last 15 years in the field of "new energy research." Dr. Mallove was convinced
it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy
device.#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April 2004. Body found in three suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay. He was NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He emerged as one of the world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities.
#52: Ilsley Ingram, age 84. Died on April 12, 2004 from unknown causes. Ingram was Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London. Although his age is most likely the reason for his death, why wasn't this confirmed by the family in the news media?
#51: Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly, Died: April 2004. This distinguished Iraqi chemistry professor died in American custody from a sudden hit to the back of his head caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he died, but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or a pistol. His battered corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue and the cause of death was initially recorded as "brainstem compression". It was discovered that US doctors had made a 20cm incision in his skull.
#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004. Microbiologist crashed car into guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died: January 24, 2004. Died of massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class. It is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it "gave out". Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
#48:
Robert Shope, age 74. Died: January 23,
2004. Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant
complications. Later purported to have died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not
be hard to administer a drug that would cause Dr. Shope's lung transplant to
either be rejected or to cause complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led
the group of scientists who had an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the new
lab would keep in the nasty bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with Dr.
Mike Kiley on the UTMB Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade would be
complete the lab will host the most hazardous pathogens known to man especially
tropical and emerging diseases as well as bioweapons. #47: Dr Richard Stevens, age 54. Died: January 6, 2004. He had disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has ruled. He was a hematologist. (hematologists analyze the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues e.g. bone marrow).
Died 2003
#46: Robert Aranosia, age 61. Died: December 18, 2003. While driving south on I-75 his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes. He was the Oakland County deputy medical examiner.
#45: Robert Leslie Burghoff, age 45. Died: November 20, 2003. Scientist. Killed by a hit and run driver that jumped the curb and ploughed into him in the 1600 block of South Braeswood, Texas. The driver was described as a short Hispanic man in his 50s with a slightly rounded face. He was studying the virus plaguing cruise ships.
#44:
Michael Perich, age 46. Died: October 11, 2003. Died in
one-vehicle car accident. The LSU West Nile research scientist was wearing his
seat belt and drowned. He was LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the
West Nile virus. Perich, who was known as one of the country's experts on
vector-borne diseases, had most recently led a crusade to keep down the effects
of West Nile virus and to get many of the Louisiana's parishes to work toward
forming mosquito
control districts.#43:
David
Kelly, age 59. Died: July 18, 2003. British biological weapons
expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home.
Kelly was the Ministry of Defense's chief scientific officer and senior adviser
to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the Foreign Office's
non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological weapons to the UN
biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in
the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country,
but in the world.
#42:
Dr. Leland Rickman, age 47. Died: June 24, 2003. Rickman
died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all
sides by South Africa. 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 Mathews, 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 Assn. of California, was a multidisciplinary professor and
practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine,
epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.#41: 'Dr.
Roger' Died: Summer 2003. 'Roger' was pseudonym for this genetics scientist. He was 17 and
lived in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the unexplained object crashed. He
told a woman he worked with in 1977 named 'Kate' while employed by the Navy, who
he helped to clean up the crash site of the 1947 UFO. He subsequently went to
work for the government at this young age and ended up a geneticist working in
China Lake for the Navy. Although he lived in fear and hiding soon after he told
his story to Kate, he retired in late 1990s or early 2000's and she saw him
again once in early 2002 in San Diego. He told her she was in danger to talk to
him and he left the store. In 2003 she received a phone
call from his 'friend' who said he had been executed in his retirement home in
Connecticut. The body had been removed by a black government looking vehicle.
The home had been cleaned up and the body removed without any public notices of
his death or existence. Many disfigured and abnormal animals were found in the
desert near Groom Lake during his time there and after. Kate thought he might
have been doing this gruesome experimental work.#40: Carlo Urbani, age 46. Died: in April 2003
in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that
he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was
contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS
patients, he contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a
hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died. He was a
dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of
enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
Died 2002
#39: Roman Kuzmin. Died December 2002. A 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. He was studying to be an orthopedic surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at Waterbury Hospital said they were stunned to hear of his death Sunday evening and many couldn't believe the circumstances. Kuzmin left Vladivostok in September to study orthopedic surgical techniques at Waterbury Hospital under a Keggi Othopedic Foundation program. Dr. Kristaps Keggi, who organized the program, said Kuzmin was "very able, very bright - a superb student and a superb individual."
#38B:
Dr. David R.
Knibbs, age 49. Died: August 5, 2002. Respected pathobiologist
specializing in electron microscopy.#38:
Steven
Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002. One of the country's leading
infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near
Centennial Airport. He was known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating
influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of the country's
leading infectious disease experts.#37:
Dr. David
Wynn-Williams, age 55. Died: March 24, 2002. Hit by a car while
jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist with the
Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center. He was
studying the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes,
including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global
warming.#35-36: Tanya Holzmayer, age 46, Died: February 28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco. While taking delivery of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer was shot and killed by a colleague, Guyang "Mathew" Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the US from Russia in 1989. Her research focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine. Holzmayer was focusing on helping create new drugs that interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS. One year earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management orders to fire Huang. Huang appeared from behind the deliveryman. He shot Holzmayer several times at close range in the chest and head. As Holzmayer fell in her doorway, Huang ran to a Ford Explorer and drove away. Less than an hour after the shooting, Huang called his wife, according to Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin. He told her about the shooting and that he was going to kill himself, then he hung up. Huang's wife called the emergency services and Foster City police used search dogs to comb the area. They ran into a jogger who had seen Huang's body lying off the walkway that locals call "The Levee." He had fired a single bullet into his head.
#34:
Dr. Ian Langford, age 40, Died:
February 12, 2002. Found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently
ransacked home A Russian who was a Senior Research Associate in CSERGE, UK. He
was a leading university research scientist working on Global Environment,
specializing in links between human health and the environment risk, was.
Specialist in leukemia and infections.#33:
Dr.
Vladamir "Victor" Korshunov, age 56. Died: February 9, 2002. Found
dead on a Moscow street. Head was bashed in. Korshunov was head of the
microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found
dead in the entrance to his home with a head injury. On Feb. 9 the Russian
newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had probably invented a vaccine
protecting from any biological arm.#32: David W. Barry, age 58, Died: January 28, 2002. Scientist who co-discovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS. Circumstance of Death are unknown.
#31: Dr. Ivan Glebov. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack. Well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
#30: Dr. Alexi Brushlinski. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Murdered in Moscow from bandit attack. Well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
Died 2001
#29
Dr. Benito
Que, age 52. Found: November 12, 2001.
Died: December 6, 2001. Found Comatose from what was called a mugging. Died
later in hospital. Found in the street near the laboratory where he worked at
the University of Miami Medical School. Among Dr. Que's friends and family there
is firm belief that Dr. Que was attacked by four men, at least one of whom had a
baseball bat. Dr. Que's death has now been officially ruled "natural", caused by
cardiac arrest. He was a cell biologist, involved in research on aids, oncology
research in the hematology department.#28:
Dr. Vladimer
Pasechnik, age 64. Died: December 23,
2001. Found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village near his home. Two
different dates have been reported: November 21 and December 23. Death ruled
stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the #1 scientist in the
FSU's bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved with exhuming the
bodies of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu epidemic. Pasechnik died
six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. On November 23, 2001,
Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred two days
earlier. Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr. Christopher
Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke. Dr. Davis
was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time
of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research.
He had just founded a company like three other microbiologists working to
provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics. Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was the
boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5 patents on the militarized anthrax
used by the United States. Patrick is now a private biowarfare consultant to
the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by which anthrax spores
could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram. No other
country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per gram. The
anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall was
concentrated at one trillion spores per gram.#27:
Dr. Don
Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December 16,
2001. Molecular Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard
University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found
on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved in
research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on November 16,
leaving the St. Jude's Children's Research Advisory Dinner at The Peabody Hotel
in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of
intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. Body found floating
one month later. Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body
of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist
was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis. On January 14, 2002
(almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced
that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley's death to be "accidental"; the result
of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith
said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on
construction signs on the bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was
missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs Dr. Wiley
hit.#26:
Dr. Set Van
Nguyen, age 44. Died: December 14,
2001. Found dead in the airlock entrance to the walk-in refrigerator in the
laboratory he worked at in Victoria State, Australia. The room was full of
deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Room was
vented. Working on a vaccine to protect against biological weapons, or a weapon
itself. In January, 2001, the magazine Nature published information that
two scientists, Dr. Ron Jackson and Dr. Ian Ramshaw, using genetic manipulation
and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a
cousin of smallpox and Dr. Nguyen had worked for 15 years at the same Australian
facility. Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday, November 2nd,
the Washington Post reported: "Officials are now scrambling to determine how a
quiet, 61-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from
her job in a hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that
killed her this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the
factors common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the
mail or to the media.#25:
Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December 10,
2001. Murdered by stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural home
Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high
priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was extremely
well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.
Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in the slashing
death. #s22-24: Avishai Berkman, age 50. (no photo)
Amiramp Eldor, age 59
Yaacov Matzner, age 54All Died: November 24, 2001. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At about the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by terrorists; including the head of the Hematology department at Israel's Ichilov Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University School of Medicine. World experts in hematology and blood clotting. Five microbiologists in this list of the first eight people that died mysteriously in airplane crashes worked on cutting edge microbiology research; and, four of the five were doing virtually identical research; research that has global political and financial significance.
#21: Jeffrey Paris Wall, age 41. Died: November 6, 2001. Body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
#16-#20: Five Unnamed Microbiologists. Died: October 4, 2001. Four of Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia; business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or public health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people. #15: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz, Died: on May 7, 2001, cause not disclosed. He was an expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His main scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and biological properties of staphylococcal toxins, and included the immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment of tumors by Propionibacterium.
Died 2000
#14: Linda Reese, age 52. Died: December 25, 2000 three days after she studied a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after she returned home for the holidays. Dr. Reese was a Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.#13: Mike Thomas, age 35. Died: 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. #12: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62. Died: 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.
Died 1998
#11: 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, and in 1986 he joined the WHO to lead the global response against Aids. He became director of WHO's global program on Aids which later became the UNAids program. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier in 1998 in the media when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
#10: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., age 46. Died 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 also a member of the executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the Bio-safety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents. .
Died 1994 - 1996
#9: Sidney Harshman, age 67. Died: Dec. 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.
#s6-8: Mark Purdey, his Lawyer, and Veterinarian working with Purdey Die: CJD doctor Mark Purdey was familiar with the expression "abnormal brain protein." Purdey’s house was burned down, his lawyer on mad cow issues was driven off the road and died and the veterinarian in the UK BSE inquiry also died in a mysterious car crash. CJD specialist Dr C. Bruton was killed in a car crash just before he went public with a new research paper. The veterinarian on the case also died in a car crash. Purdey's new lawyer, too, had a car accident, but not fatal. Before Dr. Purdey’s death, he speculated that Dr. C. Bruton (#2 below) might have known more than what was revealed in his paper before he was killed.
#4-5
Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age 46. Died: May 7, 1996. Shot and killed, along with
his young daughter, in LaJolla, 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 and she was shot dead, also. The hit was
compared to other killings of Japanese in this country by muggers. Expert in
abnormal proteins in Alzheimer.#3 Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi. Died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornel, he was hired to head the mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi's projects was filling payloads of scud missles with mycoplasma strains. In 1995, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the Israelis Mussad. His demise, or, neutralization was made to look like an accident. He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and was hit by a truck.
#2 Dr. C. Bruton, a CJD 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 was revealed in his paper.
#1
Jose Trias, Died: 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 "special ops" research. Grant
money that goes to HHMI is actually diverted to special black ops research
projects.Silbermond
Alzheimer Leading Expert, Mark Smith, Dies in Car Crash
Suicide Victim That Prompted Cyanide Scare Identified as USF PhD
Police: USF Biologist Dies In An Apparent Suicide By Cyanide
A Previous Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect
Stephen Lagakos, International AIDS Researcher, Dies
Iranian Bioweapon Researcher Dies Suspiciously
Geneticist Malcolm J. Casadaban, Dead of PlagueGerm Warfare Scientist Wallace L. Pannier, Dead at 81Cornell Researcher/Microbiologist Found Dead in N.Y. Park
Murdered: Laurent Bonomo Studying Infectious Diseases
Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link (Leonid Strachunsky) to Hepatitis Outbreak
Mysterious Murder of Yet Another of the World’s Top Scientists (Dr. Lull) as China Declares Bird Flu Emergency and World Health Organization Warns of Pandemic
Not Much to go on in Slaying of Dr. Robert J. Lull
Former Los Alamos Scientist, Todd Kauppila, Dies
Top Scientist, David Banks, Among Dead
Victim, Dr. David Banks, Lauded as 'Brilliant Scientist'
Another Dead Epidemiologist — Dr. Douglas James Passaro, 43Navy Expert Aids MUPD with Im Case
US Secret Police Forces (SSB) Bomb Biochemical Plant Near Harvard University, ‘Murdered’ Scientist Dr. Don C. Wiley’s Pioneering Work Destroyed
Autopsy Points to Homicide in Chemist's Death
Missing N.J. Chemist, Angara, Found Dead In Water Tank
Squad Seeks Tips in Death of Researcher, Jeong H. Im
Burning Car Holds Body (of Jeong H. Im)
Car Crash Kills 2 Wildlife Scientists (Thorme/Williams)
Edwin "Tom" Thorne and his wife, Elizabeth William
John Mullen — Scientist Poisoned Wth Arsenic
Another Dead Scientist: John R. La Montagne, PhDAnother Dead Scientist — Matthew Allison, 32
"Red Death": History of Russian Secret WeaponsProfessor John Clark
Head of Dolly Clone Lab is Found Hanged
Doctor's Death Stuns Family, Friends
Air Crash Victim, Dr. Paul Norman, Was Weapons Expert
Dallas County Epidemiologist Tulu Dies
Body in 3 Suitcases Was NJ University Professor
Russian Scientist Dies in Ebola Accident at Former Weapons Lab
New Trial Possible in Bizarre Bomb Case (Don C. Wiley murder)
O.C. Smith Trial - Gavel to Gavel Coverage (Don C. Wiley murder)
Alt. Energy Expert Dr. Eugene Mallove Murdered
Another Dead Scientist — Vadake Srinivasan
Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, Expert on Mad Cow and Ebola, 62, Dies
Robert Shope, 74, Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies
Update on the Death of the Two Scientists (Shope and Kiley) This Week
Another Dead Scientist: Robert Leslie Burghoff
Another Dead Scientist: LSU W. Nile Researcher, Perich, Dies in Pickup Crash on I-12
In Memoriam. . . David Wynn-Williams 1946 - 2002David Wynn-Williams: Applying the Lessons of Antarctica to the Study of the Stars
Miscellaneous
List of Murdered Scientists
Dead Scientists
Missing / Dead Scientists
14 Dead Scientists - and Counting
Mysterious Deaths of Microbiologists
Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead
Dead Microbiologists Linked to Ethno-Specific BioWeapons
Russia's Poorly Guarded Past
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