Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Medical Physicist, Dies at 89
By DENISE GELLENE
In 1972, Dr. Yalow, who is from the Bronx, was only the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Betz Addie won five Grand Slam singles titles before she was barred from the sport because she considered turning professional.
Mr. Keilson, a German-born psychoanalyst, won literary fame at the end of his long life when his long-forgotten stories, set in Nazi-occupied Europe, were republished to great acclaim.
In 1972, Dr. Yalow, who is from the Bronx, was only the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Mr. Rose, the producer of shows like “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Purlie Victorious,” advanced the cause of black playwrights and actors and helped widen the scope of American theater.
Mr. Tozzi spent two decades with the Metropolitan Opera and also appeared on film, television and Broadway.
Mr. Bevacqua helped start the eclectic clothing maker LRG, which targeted people eager to push their appearance beyond conventional hip-hop and skateboarding wear.
Robustelli was an All-Pro six times and the N.F.L.’s most outstanding player in 1962, helping the Giants’ defense evoke a celebrity aura.
Mr. Sack’s guidebook to early American furniture became the bible for a generation of weekend antiquers and professional collectors.
Mr. Clements founded an international drilling company before going into politics and breaking the Democrats’ stranglehold on the Texas governor’s office in 1978.
The Brazilian writer, painter, politician and scholar who was an outspoken civil rights leader on behalf of black Brazilians has died in Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Bagapsh was a skillful politician who steered Abkhazia through its break with the republic of Georgia while also maintaining its independence from neighboring Russia.
Mr. Wiedorfer, of Baltimore, took out two German machine-gun nests during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
Though often called the “godfather of rap,” Mr. Scott-Heron preferred to call himself a “bluesologist,” drawing on blues, jazz and Harlem Renaissance poetics.
Brand, a scholar of American literature who was chairman of the English department at Hofstra University, wrote of fans’ “delight and despair.”
Mr. Rutt’s video animation system helped propel the video-art revolution of the 1970s.
Mr. Riasanovsky, a Russian émigré who came to the United States at 14, became one of the country’s leading scholars of Russian history.
Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta’s bad-boy sidekick in the film version of “Grease,” was known to have an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
The 7-foot-2 former star, who led the league in blocks nine times, was the No. 1 draft pick in 1998 and the tallest player in the W.N.B.A.
Mr. West was the leader of the engineering team portrayed in Tracy Kidder’s book, “The Soul of a New Machine.”
Ms. Carrington was a British-born Surrealist and onetime romantic partner of Max Ernst whose paintings depicted women and half-human beasts floating in a dreamscape of images.
Mr. Delaney was an Irish businessman who founded Intrade, an online exchange that allows customers to bet on world political, entertainment and financial events.
Mr. Goldreich wrote a detailed plan for the overthrow of the South African state and once posed as the operator of a farm where Nelson Mandela, masquerading as his houseboy, plotted revolt.
The host of “Squawk on the Street” and “Squawk Box,” among other financial news programs, was known as a sharp-tongued, contentious interviewer.
Splittorff was a Royals lifer who not only spent his entire 15-year pitching career in Kansas City but who also became a color commentator and play-by-play announcer for the club.
Mrs. Clark drew out her childhood to the end of her strange, solitary life, spent since the late 1980s in hospitals, though she was of sound body and mind.
After 25 years of submissions and more than 150 rejections, Mr. Wimmer finally got his book “Irish Wine” published — to very positive reviews.
Mr. De Staebler’s fractured, dislocated human figures gave a modern voice and a sense of mystery to traditional realist forms.
Steffy was a star guard for Army’s undefeated national football champions in the mid-1940s.
Mr. Frelinghuysen served more than two decades in the House of Representatives and was a member of a New Jersey family that has produced four United States Senators
With the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once reserved for dictators like Hitler and Stalin.
In 1984, Geraldine A. Ferraro became the first woman nominated for national office by a major party.
Elizabeth Taylor, whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dazzled generations of moviegoers with her beauty.
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