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Microbiologist
Dr. David Kelly, 59, was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrist
in a wood near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire, days after being
named as the Iraq dossier mole. An investigation into the circumstances
surrounding his death continues. Dr. Kelly was Britain's leading expert
on Baghdad's weapons programs.
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Dr. Steven
Mostow, 63, was 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.
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Dr. Ian
Langford, 40, found dead at his blood-spattered and ransacked home.
Langford was a Senior Fellow at the Univ. of East Anglia's Centre for
Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment in the UK. He
was discovered by police and ambulance men. The body was naked from the
waist down and partly wedged under a chair. Cause of death: not
determined by post-mortem examination.
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Dr. David Banks,
55, died in an aircraft crash in Queensland, AU. Much of Dr. Banks'
work involved trying to keep diseases affecting cattle, pigs and fruit
orchards out of Australia. His current work looked at foot and mouth
disease and its potential to spread through the archipelago and
Australia in addition to swine fever, Nipah virus and Japanese
encephalitis.
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Virus expert, Dr
Robert E. Shope, and principal author of a highly publicized 1992
report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible
emergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses died at age 74 of
lung transplant complicatons. Dr. Shope also built the World Reference
Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, a collection of some 5,000
samples.
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Harvard
biochemistry professor Don C. Wiley has been declared missing after his
abandoned rental car was discovered on a highway outside of Memphis,
Tenn. The car, discovered on I-40—which runs between Memphis
and Arkansas—had the keys in the ignition, the hazard lights
off and a full tank of gas.
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Award-winning
micro-biologist David Wynn-Williams, 55, killed by a vehicle while out
jogging in England. In 2000 he was appointed leader of the Antarctic
Astrobiology Project, which explores the effects of environmental
stress at the limits of life on Earth. Wynn-Williams had assessed the
capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes, including
the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming.
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Dr. Eugene F.
Mallove, a Norwich Free Academy graduate, 56, died May 14, 2004 after
being beaten to death during an alleged robbery. Mallove appeared on Coast To
Coast AM
as recently as
Feb. 2004 speaking about alternative energy. Mallove was well respected
for his knowledge of cold fusion. http://www.infinite-energy.com
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Jeong
H. Im, retired protein chemist, age 72, was found in the burning trunk
of his car with mutlitple stab wounds to the chest.
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West
Nile researcher, Dr. Michael Perich, 46, died in a one-vehicle car
accident. From 1986 to 1992, Perich worked at Fort Detrick in
Frederick, Md., as the vector suppression program manager and research
medical entomologist. Colleagues described him as "one of the few
entomologists with the experience to go out and save lives today."
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