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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
His Navy plane spent only 49 minutes on the ground and needed a boost from small rockets to break free from the ice and take off. Lt. Cmdr. Conrad Shinn, a Navy pilot who became the first person to land a plane at the South Pole, on Oct. 31, 1956, helping to open the frigid expanse of Antarctica to scientific research and bolster American strategic interests during the Cold War, died on May 15 in Charlotte, N.C. He was 102. His daughter Connie Shinn said he died at a care facility.
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4 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Jere Longman
Dr. Robert Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human — a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about medical ethics — died Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79. His wife, writer Marilyn vos Savant, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant. Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human - a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about medical ethics - died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79. His wife, the writer Marilyn vos Savant, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.
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1 month ago |
seattletimes.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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1 month ago |
sacbee.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died May 20 in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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