Turski co-founded the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
Born June 1926
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He served in the military for nearly forty years before refocusing his career on education.
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The biochemist’s work in gene splicing helped lay the foundations for the biotech industry.
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She made a guest appearance on “I Love Lucy.”
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He drew the magazine’s unofficial mascot of a bull terrier.
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Ottens also helped invent the compact disc.
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Legendary Brooklyn Dodgers player Don Newcombe was the first Black pitcher to start a World Series game.
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Art Rosenfeld, a California physicist whose extraordinary contributions to sustainable development led him to be known as the Godfather of Energy Efficiency, died Jan. 27, 2017, in Berkeley, California, according …
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Music executive who founded the T.J. Martell Foundation for leukemia research.
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Bill Backer, a former advertising executive who conceived of the groundbreaking 1971 Coca-Cola television commercial titled “Buy the World a Coke,” died May 13 in Warrenton, Virginia. He was 89.