by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 25, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Natasha Richardson was a British stage and screen actress who died at the young age of 45 from an epidural brain hemorrhage caused by a skiing accident. From this tragedy you can learn how to recognize the signs of severe head injury even when the person insists that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 27, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Rosalind Franklin should have won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. She died at the very young age of 37 of ovarian cancer in 1958, probably from exposure to the radiation that helped her make this incredible discovery. In 1962, Francis Crick,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 21, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Jean Harlow was voted one of the greatest actresses of the 1930s Golden Age by the American Film Institute and was the first movie actress to be on the cover of Life Magazine, even though she was a film actress for only 10 years and appeared in only 41 movies. She...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Toshiko D’Elia, who broke many age-group world marathon records for women over 50, died of brain cancer on February 19, 2014. She was the first woman over age 50 to run a marathon in under three hours, in 2:57:25 (August, 1980) and the first woman over age 65 to run...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 2, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
He was born in 1899 in Brooklyn to Italian immigrant parents and showed evidence early in life that he had no respect for people, the law or the rules of society. At age 14, he was expelled from school for punching a female teacher in the face. How he Made Friends He...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 19, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Perhaps the most amazing mathematician of all time was Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920). He worked out incredibly complicated problems and expanded our knowledge of elliptic functions, continued fractions and infinite series. During his 32 years of life, he...
