Louis Sokoloff, 93, the doctor who pioneered the PET scan technique for measuring human-brain function and diagnosing disorders, winning an Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, died July 30 in Washington, D.C.
Robert Conquest, 98, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, died Monday in Stanford, Calif.
Vincent Marotta Sr., 91, who as co-creator of the Mr. Coffee machine helped send the percolator the way of the one-horse shay, died Aug.