Martha Vaughan (August 4, 1926 – September 13, 2018) was an American biochemist and psychologist. She worked at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Maryland. Vaughan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Vaughan's work focused on cell signaling, cellular regulation, lipid metabolism, and the roles of key proteins dealing with cholera toxin and pertussis toxin.
Vaughan died on September 13, 2018 in Bethesda at the age of 92.
James Wyngaarden
James Barnes Wyngaarden (October 19, 1924 – June 14, 2019) was an American physician, researcher and academic administrator. He was director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989 during the Ronald Reagan administration.
Wyngaarden was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Ira Pastan
Ira Pastan (born June 1, 1931) is an American scientist. He works at the National Cancer Institute. Pastan was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Society of Microbiology.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Winthrop is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,497 at the 2010 census.
Kurt Julius Isselbacher
Kurt Julius Isselbacher (September 12, 1925 – July 18, 2019) was a German-born American physician and gastroenterologist. He was the Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. He was born in Wirges, Germany.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Isselbacher died on July 18, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts from a stroke at the age of 93.
Akira Endo
He received the Japan Prize in 2006, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 2008, the Canada Gairdner International Award in 2017.
Pedro Cuatrecasas
Pedro Cuatrecasas (born 27 September 1936) is an Spanish-born American biochemist. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Cuatrecasas was born in Madrid, Spain.
In 1982, he was elected the National Academy of Sciences. In 1987, Cuatrecasas won the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1987.
Eugene Braunwald
Eugene Braunwald (born August 15, 1929) is an Austrian-born American cardiologist. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1974.
Braunwald was chief of cardiology and clinical director at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He was then hired to the University of California, San Diego where from 1968-1972 he was the founding Chair of the Department of Medicine.
Étienne-Émile Baulieu
Étienne-Émile Baulieu (born 12 December 1926) is a French biochemist and endocrinologist. He is best known for his research in the field of steroid hormones and their role in reproduction and aging.
In 1963 Baulieu was named director of INSERM, and in 1970 he became a Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of Bicêtre.
In 1990, Baulieu was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Harvey J. Alter
Harvey James Alter (born September 12, 1935) is an American medical researcher, virologist, and physician. He is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Alter is the chief of the infectious disease section and the associate director for research of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020, together with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice,
Thomas Bach
Thomas Bach, (born 29 December 1953) is a German lawyer and former Olympic fencer. Bach is the ninth and current President of the International Olympic Committee.
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge (; ; born 2 May 1942) is a Belgian sports administrator and physician. He was the eighth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 2013, the IOC announced that Rogge would become their Honorary President.
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, MBE, TD (30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999) was an Irish journalist, author, and sports official. He was the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He became a member in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21.
Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1952 to 1972. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Brundage died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany on May 8, 1975 from complications of surgery, aged 87. He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Sigfrid Edström
Johannes Sigfrid Edström (November 11, 1870 – March 18, 1964) was a Swedish industrialist. He was chairman of the Sweden-America Foundation and 4th President of the International Olympic Committee.
Henri de Baillet-Latour
Count Henri II de Baillet-Latour, 1 March 1876 – 6 January 1942) was a Belgian aristocrat. He was the third President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Baillet-Latour was born in Brussels and died there from a heart attack, aged 65.
Demetrius Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (also "Demetrius Bikelas"; ; February 15, 1835 – July 20, 1908) was a Greek businessman and writer. He was the first President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
President of the International Olympic Committee
The President of the International Olympic Committee is head of the Executive Board that has the responsibility for the administration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the management of its affairs. The IOC Executive Board is made up of the President, four Vice-Presidents and ten other IOC members; all of the board members are elected by the IOC Session, using a secret ballot, by a majority vote.
Daniel N. Robinson
Daniel N. Robinson (March 9, 1937 – September 17, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow of the faculty of philosophy at Oxford University.
He held academic positions at Amherst College, Georgetown University, Princeton University, and Columbia University. In addition, he served as the principal consultant to PBS and the BBC for their award-winning series "The Brain" and "The Mind", and he lectured for The Great Courses' series on Philosophy.
Robinson died on September 17, 2018 from heart failure at the age of 81.
José María Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle
José María Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle (5 March 1945 – 24 September 2018) was a Chilean politician. He was born in Santiago de Chile. He was a member of the National Renewal (RN) party and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile between 1990 and 1998.
Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle died on 24 September 2018 in Santiago, aged 73.
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Goldsboro is a city in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 36,437 at the 2010 Census. Goldsboro is best known as home to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
Ivar Martinsen
Karl Ivar Martinsen (8 December 1920 – 24 September 2018) was a Norwegian speed skater. He competed in the 1500 m event at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and finished 16th and 8th. He won bronze medals at the 1952 world and 1953 European allround championships. He was born in Løten, Norway.
Martinsen died in Oslo, Norway from complications of pneumonia on 24 September 2018, aged 97.
Marie Colton
Marie Watters Colton (October 20, 1922 – September 25, 2018) was an American politician. She was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She represented the 51st district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1978 to 1994 as a Democrat.
Colton died at a retirement center in Asheville from congestive heart failure on September 25, 2018, aged 95.
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