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\nWhile some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to
\npose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and
\nappear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.
\nIf you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with
\naccurate information, Thank you!
\nPeace, Mark
\n[ LINK ]
\nList mirrored below. Rest in peace.
\nAwoken Research Group
\nhttp:\/\/valis.cjb.cc\/<\/a>
\nIn the 1980s over two dozen science graduates and experts working for
\nMarconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances,
\nmost appearing to be suicides. TheMOD denied these scientists had
\nbeen involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths
\nwere in any way connected.
\nJudge for yourself
\nMarch 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
\nExpertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University
\nengaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super
\ncomputers and computer-controlled aircraft.
\nCircumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of
\ncontrol across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway
\nline. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends
\nall denied the allegation.
\nCoroners verdict: Accident.
\nApril 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
\nExpertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of
\nMilitary Science.
\nCircumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without
\nexplanation. Presumed dead.
\nMarch 1985: Roger Hill, 49
\nExpertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nNovember 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
\nExpertise: Digital communications expert who had worked atGEC and at
\nBritish Telecoms secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room
\nin Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had
\nexpressed fears that his life was in danger.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nAugust 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
\nNOTE: My records show this date to be Oct. 1986
\nExpertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for
\ntesting computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes
\nat Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
\nCircumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton
\nSuspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a
\nneedle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later
\ndismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking
\nforward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had
\nconfirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the
\ntime of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nOctober 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
\nExpertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection
\nof submarines by satellite.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around
\nhis neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his
\ncar with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was
\ncomplicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in
\nStanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and,
\ninexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house.
\nHe had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a
\nbundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the
\npolice were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the
\ninquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other
\nguests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace prior to
\nworking for Marconi, Sharif had also worked at British Aerospace on
\nguided weapons technology.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nJanuary 1987: Richard Pugh, 37
\nExpertise: MOD computer consultant and digital communications expert.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with his feet bound
\nand a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his body,
\ncoiling four times around his neck.
\nCoroners verdict: Accident.
\nJanuary 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52
\nNOTE: My records show this one to be 1986
\nExpertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret work at the Royal
\nCollege of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and later
\ndeployed in a research department at the MOD.
\nCircumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning in his own
\ngarage, shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection
\nwith his work.
\nCoroners verdict: Accident.
\nFebruary 1987: David Skeels, 43
\nExpertise: Engineer with Marconi.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a hosepipe
\nconnected to the exhaust.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nFebruary 1987: Victor Moore, 46
\nExpertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died from an overdose.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nFebruary 22, 1987: Peter Peapell, 46
\nExpertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military Science. He had
\nbeen working on testing titanium for its resistance to explosives and
\nthe use of computer analysis of signals from metals.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon monoxide
\npoisoning, in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his death
\nraised some elements of doubt. His wife had found him on his back with
\nhis head parallel to the rear car bumper and his mouth in line with
\nthe exhaust pipe, with the car engine running. Police were apparently
\nbaffled as to how he could have manoeuvred into the position in which
\nhe was found.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nMarch 30, 1987: David Sands, 37
\nExpertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley, Surrey,
\na sister company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan had also worked at
\nCamberley.
\nCircumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he allegedly made a
\nsudden U-turn on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing
\nat high speed into a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his
\nseat belt and it was discovered that the car had been carrying
\nadditional petrol cans. None of the normal reasons for a possible
\nsuicide could be found.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nApril 1987: George Kountis (age unknown)
\nExpertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.
\nCircumstance of Death: Drowned the same day as Shani Warren (see
\nbelow) as the result of a car accident, his upturned car being found
\nin the River Mersey, Liverpool.
\nCoroners verdict: Misadventure.
\n(Kountis sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought things
\ndidnt add up.)
\nApril 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
\nExpertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which
\nwas taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not
\nfar from the site of David Greenhalghs death fall. NOTE: My records
\nshow Greenhalgh also died on April 10, 1987 when he fell off of a
\nbridge. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding
\nand serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose
\naround her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind
\nher back.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\n(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope,
\nthen tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on
\nstiletto heels to drown herself.)
\nApril 10, 1987: Stuart Gooding, 23
\nExpertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal College of
\nMilitary Science.
\nCircumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday in Cyprus.
\nThe death occurred at the same time as college personnel were carrying
\nout exercises on Cyprus.
\nCoroners verdict: Accident.
\nApril 24, 1987: Mark Wisner, 24
\nExpertise: Software engineer at the MOD.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared with two
\ncolleagues. He was found with a plastic sack around his head and
\nseveral feet of cling film around his face. The method of death was
\nalmost identical to that of Richard Pugh some three months earlier.
\nCoroners verdict: Accident.
\nMay 3, 1987: Michael Baker, 22
\nExpertise: Digital communications expert working on a defence project
\nat Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS.
\nCircumstance of Death: Fatal accident when his car crashed through a
\nbarrier near Poole in Dorset.
\nCoroners verdict: Misadventure.
\nJune 1987: Jennings, Frank, 60
\nExpertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.
\nNo inquest.
\nJanuary 1988: Russell Smith, 23
\nExpertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy Research
\nEstablishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff fall at Boscastle
\nin Cornwall.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nMarch 25, 1988: Trevor Knight, 52
\nNOTE: My records show Trevor Knight dying in May 1988.
\nExpertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems
\nin Stanmore, Middlesex.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden,
\nHertfordshire at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the
\nexhaust. A St.Albans coroner said that Knights woman friend, Miss
\nNarmada Thanki (who also worked with him at Marconi) had found three
\nsuicide notes left by him which made clear his intentions. Miss Thanki
\nhad mentioned that Knight disliked his work but she did not detect any
\ndepression that would have driven him to suicide.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nAugust 1988: Alistair Beckham, 50
\nExpertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defence Systems.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted in his
\ngarden shed with wires connected to his body.
\nCoroners verdict: Open.
\nAugust 22, 1988: Peter Ferry, 60
\nExpertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant Marketing Director
\nwith Marconi.
\nCircumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August 1988 electrocuted
\nin his company flat with electrical leads in his mouth.
\nCoroners verdict: Open
\nSeptember 1988: Andrew Hall, 33
\nExpertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace.
\nCircumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with a
\nhosepipe connected to the exhaust.
\nCoroners verdict: Suicide.
\nEnd of Marconi File
\n–
\n1988: Stanley Irving Sigal, 35
\nExpertise: Top AIDS researcher at Mercks.
\nCircumstance of Death: In seat number 13B on Pan American Flight that
\nwas shot down over Lockerbee Scotland.
\nhttp:\/\/web.syr.edu\/~vpaf103\/victims.htm<\/a>
\n1994\/95?: Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi
\nExpertise: Veterinary mycoplasma and had worked with various
\nmycoplasmas in the 1980s at Plum Island.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was killed in his native Iraq while he was
\nchanging a flat tire and hit by a truck.
\nSource: Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
\nApril 1996: Dr. Clive Bruton
\nExpertise: He had just produced a paper on a new strain of CJD. He
\nwas a CJD specialist who was killed before his work was announced to
\nthe public. He had been publicly arguing that deaths from CJD were
\ngoing unrecognised because it was assumed that Alzheimer disease
\nwhich has indistinguishable symptoms was the cause.
\nCircumstance of Death: He died in a car crash after an apparent heart
\nattack.
\nMay 7, 1996: Tsunao Saitoh PhD, 46
\nExpertise: He was professor of neurosciences at the University of
\nCalifornia, San Diego. was an internationally respected researcher
\ninto the reasons for diseases such as Alzheimers and had been doing
\nground-breaking research on the deformation of the amyloid brain
\nprotein (found in CJD and Alzheimers).
\nCircumstance of Death: He and his 13 year-old daughter were killed in
\nLa Jolla, California, in what a Reuters report described as a very
\nprofessionally done shooting. He was dead behind the wheel of the
\ncar, the side window had been shot out, and the door was open. His
\ndaughter appeared to have tried to run away and she was shot dead, also.
\nDec 25, 1997: Sidney Harshman, 67
\nExpertise: Professor of microbiology and immunology.
\nHe was the worlds leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins,
\naccording to Conrad Wagner, professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt
\nand a close friend of Professor Harshman. He also deeply cared for
\nother people and was always eager to help his students and colleagues.
\nCircumstance of Death: Complications of diabetes
\nJuly 10, 1998: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., 46
\nExpertise: An associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary
\ndivision of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University
\nHospitals of Cleveland. She was also a member of the executive
\ncommittee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the biosafety
\nlevel 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV,
\nvirulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents.
\nCircumstance of Death: Killed in a traffic accident while visiting
\nfamily in Tennessee
\nSeptember 1998: Jonathan Mann, 51
\nExpertise: Founding director of the World Health Organisations
\nglobal Aids programme and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most
\ncomprehensive Aids research effort in Africa at the time, and in 1986
\nhe joined the WHO to lead the global response against Aids. He became
\ndirector of WHOs global programme on Aids which later became the
\nUNAids programme. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier
\nBagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at
\nHarvard School of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier
\nthis year in the post when he accused the US National Institutes of
\nHealth of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on
\ndeveloping Aids vaccines.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died in the Swissair Flight 111 crash in Canada.
\nMarch 2000: Larry C. Ford
\nExpertise: Served as a consultant to both the CIA and the chemical
\nand biological-weapons program of the South African Defense Forces,
\nheaded by Wouter Basson. His contributions to Bassons program
\nincluded lectures on converting ordinary items into lethal biological
\nweapons.
\nHe provided samples of virulent, designer strains of cholera, anthrax,
\nbotulism, plague, and malaria, as well as a bacteria he claimed had
\nbeen mutated to be pigment specific for the white minority
\ngovernment of South Africa.
\nhttp:\/\/www.edwardhumes.com\/articles\/medicine.shtml<\/a>
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of a shotgun blast at his home in Irvine,
\nOrange County, California. His death was later ruled a suicide.
\nhttp:\/\/www.visioncircle.org\/archive\/000055.html<\/a>
\nApril 15, 2000: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., 62
\nExpertise: An extensive writer\/ lecturer\/ researcher about mental
\nhealth and AIDS in the African American community.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital.
\nJuly 16, 2000: Mike Thomas, 35
\nExpertise: A microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in
\nHuntsville.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died a few days after examining a sample taken
\nfrom a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived.
\nNovember 19, 2000: Dr. Fred Knauert, 57
\nExpertise: He was a civilian scientist who served the U.S. Army
\nMedical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for 17
\nyears.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died suddenly at his home.
\nDecember 25, 2000: Linda Reese, 52
\nExpertise: Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died three days after she studied a sample
\nfrom Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore
\nat Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days
\nafter she returned home for the holidays.
\nFebruary 1, 2001: Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42
\nExpertise: A senior hemotologist at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in
\nJerusalem who treated patients suffering from leukemia and lymphoma
\nregardless of ethnic or religious orgin.
\nCircumstance of Death: Killed by 11 gunshots fired from a passing car
\non a section of the Jerusalem-Hebron Highway.
\nFebruary 16th, 2001: Dr Joe Gibbs, 76
\nExpertise: An expert on neurological diseases who helped show that
\nmaladies like mad cow disease and scrapie are infectious rather than
\ngenetic.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of a heart attack while in a hospital in
\nWashington
\nMarch 2001: Dr. Trudy L. Bush, 52
\nExpertise: Professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the
\nUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine whose work in the field of
\nwomens health brought her international acclaim.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of undetermined causes at her home.
\nMay 7, 2001: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
\nExpertise: Expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His
\nmain scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of
\naction and biological properties of staphylococcal toxins, and
\nincluded the immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment of
\ntumours by Propionibacterium.
\nNovember 2001: Yaacov Matzner, 54
\nExpertise: Dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in
\nJerusalem and chairman of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood
\nTransfusions, was the son of Holocaust survivors. One of the worlds
\nexperts on blood diseases including familiar Mediterranean fever
\n(FMF), Matzner conducted research that led to a genetic test for FMF.
\nHe was working on cloning the gene connected to FMF and investigating
\nthe normal physiological function of amyloid A, a protein often found
\nin high levels in people with blood cancer.
\nCircumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor
\nwere on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came
\ndown in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
\nNovember 2001: Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
\nExpertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Avivs Ichilov
\nHospital and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospitals
\nhaematology department but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to
\nhead the haematology institute at Ichilov Hospital. He was an
\ninternationally known expert on blood clotting especially in women who
\nhad repeated miscarriages and was a member of a team that identified
\neight new anti-clotting agents in the saliva of leeches.
\nCircumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor
\nwere on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came
\ndown in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
\nNovember 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
\nExpertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and
\nhe also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
\nCircumstance of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled next to a
\nthree-story parking structure near his office. He had studied at the
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
\nNov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57
\nExpertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the United States.
\nDr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard
\nUniversity, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral
\nattacks such as the classic doomsday plagues ofHIV, ebola and influenza.
\nCircumstance of Death: Police found his rental car on a bridge
\noutside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi
\nRiver.
\nNov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
\nExpertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian
\ndefector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role
\nin Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise
\nmissiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
\nBackground: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a
\nlaboratory at Porton Down, the country4s chem-bio warfare defense
\nestablishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for
\nthe diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax.
\nCircumstance of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who
\nalso happened to be associated with Britain4s spy agency, concluded he
\ndied of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an
\ninquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who
\nhad worked with Pasechnik said he was in good health.
\nDec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57
\nExpertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms,
\nfounding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the
\nExecutive Director of Research and Development at Virginia4s Center
\nfor Innovative Technology in Herndon.
\nCircumstance of Death: stabbed and slashed with what police believe
\nwas a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who
\nidentifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her
\nfellow pagans have been charged.
\nDec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44
\nExpertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific
\nand Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for
\ndiscovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to
\naffect smallpox.
\nCircumstance of Death: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a
\nlaboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from
\nexposure to nitrogen.
\nJanuary 2002: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
\nExpertise: Two microbiologists. Both were well known around the world
\nand members of the Russian Academy of Science.
\nCircumstance of Death: Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack
\nand Brushlinski was killed in Moscow.
\nJanuary 5, 2002: Dr. Graham Ryder, 52
\nExpertise: A Staff Scientist at USRAs Lunar and Planetary Institute
\nin Houston who was a premier lunar scientist that pioneered many of
\nour most important concepts about the Moon and its evolution.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died suddenly from cancer.
\nJanuary 28, 2002: David W. Barry, 58
\nExpertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is
\nconsidered the first effective treatment for AIDS.
\nCircumstance of Death: unknown
\nFeb. 9, 2002: Victor Korshunov, 56
\nExpertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world
\nCircumstance of Death: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.
\nFeb. 14, 2002: Ian Langford, 40
\nExpertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.
\nCircumstance of Death: found dead in his home near Norwich, England,
\nnaked from the waist down and wedged under a chair.
\nFeb. 28, 2002: Tanya Holzmayer, 46
\nExpertise: a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the
\npart of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by
\nmedicine.
\nCircumstance of Death: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang
\n(Matthew) Huang, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to
\na pizza delivery. Then he shot himself.
\nFeb. 28, 2002: Guyang Huang, 38
\nExpertise: Microbiologist
\nCircumstance of Death: Apparently shot himself after shooting fellow
\nmicrobiologist, Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.
\nMarch 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, 55
\nExpertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic
\nSurvey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer
\nspace.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died in a freak road accident near his home in
\nCambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
\nMarch 25, 2002: Steven Mostow, 63
\nExpertise: Known as Dr. Flu for his expertise in treating
\ninfluenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health
\nSciences Centre.
\nCircumstance of Death: died when the airplane he was piloting crashed
\nnear Denver.
\nAugust 05, 2002: David R. Knibbs, PhD., 49
\nExpertise: Director of Electron Microscopy at Hartford Hospital and
\nhad a doctorate in pathobiology from the University of Connecticut. He
\nalso served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford.
\nCircumstance of Death: He collapsed and died after an evening
\nrun (one of his joys in life).
\nNov. 12, 2002: Benito Que, 52
\nExpertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the
\nMiami Medical School
\nCircumstance of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a
\ntelephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking
\nlot of the Miami Medical School. He died without regaining
\nconsciousness. Police said he had suffered a heart attack. His family
\ninsisted he had been in perfect health and claimed four men attacked
\nhim. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned a verdict of death
\nby natural causes.
\nApril 2003: Carlo Urbani, 46
\nExpertise: A dedicated and internationally respected Italian
\nepidemiologist, who did work of enduring value combating infectious
\nillness around the world.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute
\nrespiratory syndrome) the new disease that he had helped to
\nidentify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in
\nVietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS patients,
\nhe contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a
\nhospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died.
\nJune 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47
\nExpertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county
\nprepare to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with
\nDr. Chris Mathews of UCSD, the director of the universitys Owen
\nClinic for AIDS patients. Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and
\nhad gone to lie down. When he didnt appear for dinner, Mathews
\nchecked on him and found him dead. A cause has not yet been determined.
\nJuly 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
\nExpertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the
\nMinistry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of
\nmicrobiology at Porton Down and worked with two American scientists,
\nBenito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
\nHelped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a
\ncontract with the U.S. Navy for the diagnostic and therapeutic
\ntreatment of anthrax
\nCircumstance of Death: He was found dead after allegedly slashing his
\nwrists and throat and then dragging himself a half mile away in a
\nwooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire while he was out
\nfor his regular walk.
\nOct 11, 2003: Michael Perich, 46
\nExpertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile
\nvirus. Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control
\nand Rodent Abatement District to determine whether mosquitoes in the
\narea carried West Nile.
\nCircumstance of Death: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday
\nthat Perich of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford
\npickup truck about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, while heading west on
\nInterstate 12 in Livingston Parish. Perichs truck veered right off
\nthe highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in
\nrainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned.
\nThe cause of the crash is under investigation, Burns said.
\nMike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out
\nand save lives today.
\n~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for
\nDisease Control and Prevention
\nNovember 22, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45
\nExpertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing cruise ships
\nuntil he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003
\nCircumstance of Death: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the
\n1600 block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit
\nhim at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away.
\nBurghoff died an hour later at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
\nDecember 18, 2003: Robert Aranosia, 61
\nExpertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner
\nCircumstance of Death: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup
\ntruck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The
\nvehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median.
\nAranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of
\nthe northbound lanes.
\nJanuary 6, 2004: Dr Richard Stevens, 54
\nExpertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular
\ncomposition of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)
\nCircumstance of Death: Disappeared after arriving for work on 21
\nJuly, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt,
\nkilled himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret
\naffair, a coroner has ruled.
\nJanuary 23 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74
\nExpertise: One of the worlds top experts on viruses and infectious
\nillnesses who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992
\nreport by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible
\nemergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses. He had
\naccumulated his own collection of virus samples gathered from all over
\nthe world and worked on a Defense Department project to develop
\nantidotes to viral agents that terrorists might use.
\nCircumstance of Death: The cause was complications of a lung
\ntransplant he received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of
\nGalveston. Dr. Shope had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown
\norigin that scars the lungs.
\nJanuary 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
\nExpertise: One of the worlds leading microbiologists and an expert
\nin developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment
\nfacilities. He was at the forefront in the early studies of Lassa
\nfever, the Ebola virus and mad cow disease while at the Centers for
\nDisease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently,
\nboth Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4
\nat the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to
\nbe secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and
\nemerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
\nMarch 13, 2004: Vadake Srinivasan
\nExpertise: Was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial
\nbiologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
\nCircumstance of Death: He died in a mysterious single car accident in
\nBaton Rouge, La. Crashed car into a guard rail and ruled a stroke.
\nApril 12, 2004: Ilsley Ingram, 84
\nExpertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre
\nand the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders
\nat the St. Thomas Hospital in London.
\nCircumstance of Death: unknown
\nMay 5, 2004: William T. McGuire, 39
\nExpertise: NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and
\nadjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
\nCircumstance of Death: His dismembered body was found floating in
\nthree suitcases in the Chesapeake Bay.
\nMay 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56
\nExpertise: Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold
\nfusion. He had just published an open letter outlining the results of
\nand reasons for his last 15 years in the field of new energy research.
\nDr. Mallove was convinced it was only a matter of months before the
\nworld would actually see a free energy device.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died after being beaten to death during an
\nalleged robbery.
\nMay 25, 2004: Antonina Presnyakova
\nExpertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia
\nCircumstance of Death: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a
\nneedle laced with Ebola.
\nJune 22, 2004: Thomas Gold, 84
\nExpertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of
\nthe Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a
\nclose colleague of Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan. Gold was
\nfamous for his provocative, controversial, and sometimes outrageous
\ntheories. Golds theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important
\nramifications for the possibility of life on other planets, including
\nseemingly inhospitable planets within our own solar system. Gold
\nsparked controversy in 1955 when he suggested that the Moons surface
\nis covered with a fine rock powder.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of heart failure.
\nJune 24, 2004: Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45
\nExpertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served
\nfor five years as the countys lone epidemiologist. He was charged
\nwith tracking the health of the county, including the spread of
\ndiseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a
\nsystem for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or
\nbacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major
\nhealth concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus
\noutbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media to inform
\nthe public.
\nCircumstance of Death: Dallas Countys chief epidemiologist, was
\nfound at his desk, died of a stroke.
\nJune 27, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52
\nExpertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological
\ndefence at the Ministry of Defences laboratory at Porton Down,
\nWiltshire. He travelled the world lecturing on the subject of weapons
\nof mass destruction.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died when the Cessna 206 crashed shortly after
\ntaking off from Dunkeswell Airfield on Sunday. A father and daughter
\nalso died at the scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal
\nMarine Major Mike Wills later died in the hospital.
\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/wiltshire\/3860995.stm<\/a>
\nJune 29, 2004: John Mullen, 67
\nExpertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
\n(Note: McDonnell Douglas did not exist in 2004. It merged with Boeing
\nin 1997.)
\nJuly 1, 2004: Edward Hoffman, 62
\nExpertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held
\nleadership positions within the UCLA medical community. Worked to
\ndevelop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University
\nin St. Louis.
\nCircumstance of Death: unknown
\nJuly 2, 2004: Larry Bustard, 53
\nExpertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a foam spray to
\nclean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax
\nscare in 2001. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.
\nHis team came up with a new technology used against biological and
\nchemical agents.
\nCircumstance of Death: unknown
\nJuly 6, 2004: Stephen Tabet, 42
\nExpertise: An associate professor and epidemiologist at the
\nUniversity of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher
\nwho worked with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV
\nVaccine Trials Network.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of an unknown illness
\nJuly 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares
\nExpertise: He was a phD chemist
\nCircumstance of Death: His mutilated body was found in the city of
\nSamarra, Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.
\nJuly 21, 2004: Dr. John Badwey 54
\nExpertise: Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed
\ndisposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge.
\nBiochemist at Harvard Medical School specializing in infectious
\ndiseases.
\nCircumstance of Death: Suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms
\nthen died in two weeks.
\nAugust 12, 2004: Professor John Clark
\nExpertise: Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep.
\nProf Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the worlds
\nleading animal biotechnology research centres. He played a crucial
\nrole in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute
\nworldwide fame.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was found hanging in his holiday home.
\nSeptember 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani, 40
\nExpertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear
\nphysicist since 1984.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
\nSeptember 27, 2004: Dr. John E. Mack, 74
\nExpertise: Professor John E Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist,
\npsychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner who turned the academic
\ncommunity upside down because he wanted to publish his research in
\nwhich he said that people who claimed they had been abducted by
\naliens, were not crazy at all.
\nCircumstance of Death: While traveling on foot in North London from
\nthe tube station, he was struck by an alleged drunk driver.
\nThe Author of Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos: Human
\nTransformation and Alien Encounters
\nOctober 13, 2004: Matthew Allison, 32
\nExpertise: (please help provide information thank you MJH)
\nCircumstance of Death: Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola
\nCounty, Fla., Wal-Mart store was no accident, Local 6 News has
\nlearned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses said the man left the
\nstore at about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car when it
\nexploded. Investigators said they found a Duraflame log and propane
\ncanisters on the front passengers seat.
\nNovember 2, 2004: John R. La Montagne
\nExpertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson.
\nWas NIAID Deputy Director.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.
\nDecember 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher
\nExpertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist
\nCircumstance of Death: He was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown
\ngunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala University when armed men
\nopened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km
\nnortheast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into
\nthe Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local
\nuniversity, was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba
\nhospital where he was pronounced dead
\nDecember 29, 2004: Tom Thorne and Beth Williams
\nExpertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife
\nveterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting
\ndisease and brucellosis
\nCircumstance of Death: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on
\nU.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
\nJanuary 7, 2005: Jeong H. Im, 72
\nExpertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University
\nof Missouri-Columbia. Primarily a protein chemist.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was stabbed several times and his body was
\nfound in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the
\nMaryland Avenue parking garage.
\nJanuary 24, 2005: Roger L. Blair, 54
\nExpertise: He worked for the Kennedy Space center as a micro-
\nbiologist and most recently for Wuesthoff Medical Center as a Medical
\nLaboratory Technician.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died suddenly
\nFebruary 8, 2005: Geetha Angara, 43
\nExpertise: She was a senior chemist with a doctorate from New York
\nUniversity.
\nCircumstance of Death: Divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep water
\ntreatment tank where she was doing water quality tests at the Passaic
\nValley Water Commission plant in Totowa.
\nMarch 11, 2005: Hiram Graybill Daniel Jr., 61
\nExpertise: For 36 years, his day job was working as an epidemiologist
\nfor the Georgia Department of Community Health, combating sexually
\ntransmitted diseases.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died as a result of injuries sustained in an
\nautomobile accident
\nMarch 29, 2005: Professor Carlos Hormaeche, 64
\nExpertise: A leading international expert in microbiology and vaccine
\ndevelopment. From 1994 to 2002, he was professor and head of the
\nmicrobiology department at Newcastle University.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died in a microlight aeroplane accident in
\nUruguay.
\nApril 5, 2005: Barbara Kalow, 45
\nExpertise: A FEDERAL government veterinary scientist and was a
\nresearcher before being hired by the feds in 1992 as a meat inspector.
\nShe then moved to veterinary biologics and was promoted to the science
\nbranch to advise on animal health issues.
\nCircumstance of Death: She died of asphyxiation after being smothered
\nby a pillow in her hotel room while on vacation in Arizona.
\nAril 18, 2005: Douglas Passaro, 43
\nExpertise: He was an associate professor of epidemiology at the
\nUniversity of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and had been
\nan outbreak investigator with the Epidemic Intelligence Service for
\nthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before completing an
\nInfectious Diseases Fellowship at Stanford University in 2001.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died suddenly at his Oak Park home.
\nMay 8, 2005: David Banks, 55
\nExpertise: He was the principal scientist with Biosecurity Australia
\nand was involved in containing pest and disease threats. His primary
\nmission was protecting livestock and plants in the country, and
\nkeeping diseases from crossing into Australia. He was an expert in the
\npropagation of diseases by insect vectors, among other things.
\nCircumstance of Death: He died along with 15 other people when the
\ncommuter plane he was traveling in went down in Queensland, Australia.
\nMay 20, 2005: Robert J. Lull, 64
\nExpertise: A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital
\nwho once headed the San Francisco Medical Society. Lull focused on
\nimprovements in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer. Lull was a
\nhighly revered expert in the field of nuclear medicine, a specialty
\nthat performs diagnostic screens such as bone scans for cancer
\npatients. Last year, Lull lectured in San Francisco about the threat
\nof nuclear terrorism.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was found stabbed to death inside the
\ndoorway of his Diamond Heights home.
\nJune 7, 2005: Leonid Strachunsky (age unknown)
\nExpertise: World Health Organization expert and director of the Anti-
\nMicrobe Therapy Research Institute who specialized in creating
\nmicrobes resistant to biological weapons, to the hepatitis outbreak.
\nCircumstance of Death: He was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow,
\nwhere he came from Smolensk en route to the United States. He had been
\nhit on the head with a champagne bottle, and some of his possessions
\nwere missing.
\nJuly 16 2005: William Taylor, 62
\nExpertise: A former chief scientist of NASAs Space Station Freedom
\nwho was also president of INSPIRE Interactive NASASpace Physics
\nIonosphere Radio Experiments one of the pioneering successes in NASA
\nSun-Earth Connection Education.
\nCircumstance of Death: Died of a heart attack at his Washington home.<\/p>\n
\nMathaba.net
\n10-31-4
\nMore than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the
\nhands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US
\ntroops in April 2003, a seminar has found.
\nThe Iraqi ambassador in Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of
\nsending to Iraq immediately after the US invasion a commando unit
\ncharged with the killing of Iraqi scientists.
\nIsrael has played a prominent role in liquidating Iraqi scientists.
\nThe campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim
\nscientists working in applied research which Israel sees as
\nthreatening its interests, al-Iraqi said.
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