by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 2, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
On Thursday, March 18, 2022, University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA Division I swimming championship when she won the 500-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds. She beat the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
William Hurt was a stage, screen and television actor who won an Academy Award for best actor in Kiss of The Spider Woman, was nominated three other times for Academy Awards and starred in many popular films including Children of a Lesser God, Body Heat, The Big...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 21, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Scott Hall was a “bad-guy” wrestling superstar who was inducted twice into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, previously WWF) Hall of Fame: • in 2014 as Razor Ramon, known for wearing gold chains and flicking a toothpick at opponents • in 2020 as a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Muhammed Ali was honored by presidents and kings as the most famous athlete in the world. He was an Olympic gold medalist and three-time heavyweight world champion. His ancestors were slaves in the pre-Civil War South with some Irish and English in their heritage. His...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 7, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Together with his wife, Virginia Man-Yee Lee, researcher John Trojanowski wrote more than 500 scientific papers that made him one of the world’s leading authorities on abnormally-folded proteins that damage the brain: • tau proteins in Alzheimer disease •...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 26, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with heavy drinking among four of the highest Russian government officials, the 74 year-old Joseph Stalin collapsed at his house. Later he was found unconscious on the floor, yet no doctors were summoned until the next...
