by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 2, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1938, when he was 15, Henry Kissinger’s family escaped from Nazi Germany and came to the United States. They were so poor that he attended a New York high school at night and worked in a shaving brush factory during the day. At age 20, he was drafted into the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 21, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Linus Pauling died at age 93 of prostate cancer, a disease that affects nearly 100 percent of North American men over age 90. He was one of the most influential chemists of all time, and also a peace activist, author, and educator. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Richard Feynman was probably killed by the first atomic bomb explosion in Trinity, New Mexico in July 1945, even though it took 42 years for him to die from it in 1988. Feynman was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. He helped to develop the atomic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Getting credit for a great scientific discovery is sometimes just a matter of luck. You all know that penicillin can be made by fungi to kill bacteria, but most of you do not know the sad story that more than 120 years ago, antibiotics were first discovered by an...
