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List of Dead Scientists

 

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Died 2005

 

#78: 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.

 

#77: 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.

 

#76: 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.)

 

#75: 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.

 

#74: 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..

 

 

 

 

#73: 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.

 

 

 

#72: 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

 

 

 

#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).

 

 

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