by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 6, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Chadwick Boseman was a movie actor who brilliantly portrayed baseball player Jackie Robinson (2013), singer James Brown (2014), and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (2017). In 2016, at age 40, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and never told the public about...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 30, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Fuller Albright discovered more new diseases and their causes than any other person in the history of medicine. He founded modern endocrinology, the study of how glands work in your body. In his lifetime, he mentored most of the chairmen of the departments of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 24, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Isaac Asimov probably had more of his writings published than any other person in history with more than 500 books, mostly science fiction and popular science. As a child, he was short, fat and uncoordinated and never learned to swim or ride a bike. As an adult, he...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 16, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Sumner Redstone was a media magnate worth about five billion dollars, through his innovations and investments in radio, television, and movies. In 2016, at age 92, he resigned from being the executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom because of a court-ordered...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 27, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Regis Philbin held the Guinness Book of World Records title for the most time spent in front of a television camera — tallied at 16,343 hours when he retired at age 80 in 2011. He hosted “Live! with Kathie Lee” (which later became “Live! with...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 20, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Albert Einstein is arguably the most famous and brilliant physicist of all time. In 1933, when he was 54, he held the prestigious title of tenured professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Fortunately for him, when Adolf Hitler came to power, he was traveling to...
