Whitehead died from a massive stroke on 26 June 2014, aged 65.
Wolf Koenig
Wolf Koenig (October 17, 1927 – June 26, 2014) was a German-born Canadian movie director, producer, animator and cinematographer. He was a founder of Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). For NFB, he worked on movies such as "Neighbours" (1952) and "Lonely Boy" (1962). His animations included "What on Earth!" (1966) and "The House That Jack Built" (1967).
Koenig was born in Dresden, Saxony. He and his family fled Nazi Germany for Canada in 1937.
Koenig died on June 26, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, aged 86.
Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist. Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging".
He served as a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1963 until 1985. While there, Lauterbur conducted research on the development of the MRI. Along with his wife Joan, Lauterbur became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1985. Lauterbur served as the professor for 22 years until he died on March 27, 2007 in Urbana, Illinois.
Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder (born Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder; 2 December 1931 – 25 June 2014) was a British science writer and television screenwriter.
He wrote for the magazine "New Scientist" from 1956 until 1966. He was also an editor for the magazine from 1962 until 1966. He soon moved to television screenwriting. He won the Kalinga Prize in 1972.
Calder was born in London, and grew up during World War II. His father was Lord Ritchie-Calder. Nigel Calder was a brother of the historian Angus Calder (1942–2008), mathematician Allan Calder and educationist Isla Calder (1946–2000). He was the father of travel writer Simon Calder and four other children. He was married to Elisabeth Palmer from 1954 until his death.
Calder believed the threat from global warning had been muchly magnified. He helped in making the movie "The Great Global Warming Swindle". He also co-authored "The Chilling Stars". About global warming, Calder said: "Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system".
Calder died on 25 June 2014 in Crawley, West Sussex, aged 82.
Arvid Jacobsen
Arvid Jacobsen (11 October 1938 – 25 June 2014) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.
Jacobsen was born in Oslo. He started off his career with the Labour newspaper "Dagsavisen" (then "Arbeiderbladet"). He was a journalist for "Arbeiderbladet" from 1967 to 1977 and editor-in-chief in presses from 1977 to 1990. Furthermore, he was the main editor-in-chief of "Arbeiderbladet" from 1991 to 1994. Later, he was the information director for the Norwegian Bar Association from 1994 to 2003.
Jacobsen died after a short illness on 25 June 2014 at Ullevål Hospital, Oslo. He was 75.
Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist.
Benacerraf won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 for his "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self". He shared the prize with Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Morocco and Algiers. Benacerraf's brother is Paul Benacerraf, a well-known philosopher. His father was a textile merchant. In 1925, he moved from Venezuela to Paris. In 1940, after he went back to Venezuela, he emigrated to the U.S.. He earned his B.S. at Columbia University School of General Studies in 1942. Benacerraf later went to the Medical College of Virginia where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree.
Steve Viksten
Stephen Lee "Steve" Viksten (July 19, 1960 – June 23, 2014) was an American television producer, writer and voice actor. He was best known for voicing the character Oskar Kokoshka (and co-creating, writing and producing) on the Nickelodeon animated series "Hey Arnold!". He also wrote many episodes for the shows "Hey Arnold!", "Rugrats", "Recess" and "Duckman". He co-wrote a "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> season 22 episode called "Homer Scissorhands" with Peter Gaffney in 2011. This was his last credit.
Viksten was born in Ventura, California. He went to the University of Missouri, UCLA, and Cal State Fullerton.
Viksten died from a cranial hemorrhage on June 23, 2014 in Roseville, California. He was 53.
E. Donnall Thomas
Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, 1920 – October 20, 2012) was a American physician.
Thomas won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Joseph E. Murray for his help in the development of cell and organ transplantation.
He was born on March 15, 1920 in Mart, Texas. His father was a general practice doctor and often shadowed him. In 1941, Thomas earned his B.A. and studied chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He also earned his M. A. from there in 1943. Thomas met his wife, Dorothy (Dottie) Martin while he was an undergraduate. He had three children with her. In 1943, he went to Harvard Medical School. Thomas worked closely with his wife after she became a lab technician during this time to support their family. He did residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before he joined the US Army. "In 1955, he was appointed physician in chief at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, now Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, N.Y., an affiliate of Columbia University."
He studied rodents that received lethal doses of radiation who were then saved by an infusion of marrow cells at Mary Imogene Bassett. At the time, patients who underwent bone marrow transplantation had all died due to either infections or immune reactions that were not seen in the rodent studies. He began to use dogs as a model system. He moved his lab to the United States Public Health Service in Seattle in 1963. In 1990, he received the National Medal of Science. He was one of 22 Nobel Laureates that signed the Humanist Manifesto in 2003.
Jaroslav Walter
Jaroslav Walter (6 January 1939 – 20 June 2014) was a Czech ice hockey player. He played for the Czechoslovak national team from the 1950s until the 1970s. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Walter was born in Sobědraž, Kostelec nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia (now part of the Czech Republic).
Walter died on 20 June 2014 at the age of 75.
Anatoly Kornukov
Anatoly Mikhaïlovich Kornukov (; 10 January 1942 – 1 July 2014) was a Russian army general from 1959 until 2002. He was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Defence Forces. He was commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force from 1998 to 2002. He got internationally known when it was found out that he ordered Korean Air Lines Flight 007 to be shot down on 1 September 1983.
Kornukov was born in Kadievka, Soviet Union (now Stakhanov, Ukraine).
Kornukov died on 1 July 2014 in Moscow, aged 72.
Bob Jones (police commissioner)
Robert "Bob" Jones ( – 1 July 2014) was a British police officer and politician. He was the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner for Labour West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner from 15 November 2012 until his death. He served as a Labour Councillor for Blakenhall Ward on Wolverhampton City Council from 1 May 1980 until 2013.
Jones was born in Wolverhampton. He studied at the University of Nottingham. He got a CBE in 2010.
Jones died in his sleep on 1 July 2014 in Wolverhampton, aged 59.
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