Howard Ernest Gruber, 82, a Scholar of Cognitive Psychology, Is Dead
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Howard Ernest Gruber was noted for his books on the development of Darwin's thinking on evolution.
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LESLIE, Mich. - A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name.
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Fred L. Whipple, a pioneer in astronomy who proposed the "dirty snowball" theory for the substance of comets, has died. He was 97.
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Dr. William Dobelle, who developed an experimental system of artificial vision that involved the transmission of electrical signals to electrodes implanted in the brain and attached to the visual cortex, has died.
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Description: Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients, has died at age 78.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century has died at the age of 74, the BBC reported Saturday.
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The man who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, who briefly became a guru to the Beatles and other pop musicians and who built a multimillion-dollar global business based on teaching people how to pause and close their eyes twice a day, died Feb. 5 at his home in Vlodrop, Netherlands....
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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PHOENIX - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78...
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Loren Grey, son of popular Western author Zane Grey who oversaw his father's legacy and was a longtime professor of psychology at Cal State Northridge, has died.
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RIP Prof. Donald Michie and Dame Anne McLaren Bletchley Park code-breaker Professor Donald Michie, 84, and his ex-wife, geneticist Dame Anne McLaren, 80, were killed in a car crash this Saturday.â¦
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A native of Red Oak, Iowa, who was a pioneer in astronomy who proposed the &quot;dirty snowball&quot; theory for the substance of comets, has died.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the musician said on Monday. He was 82.
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Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, whose provocative books revolutionized how the living talk about death and advocated a belief in the afterlife, died Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.