Thomas Buergenthal, Holocaust survivor and judge, dies at 89
Thomas Buergenthal, who said his survival in a Nazi death camp when he was 10 years old equipped him to become a human rights lawyer...
Roy Saltman, who warned about hanging chads, dies at 90
Roy G. Saltman, whose overlooked warning about the vulnerability of punch-card ballots presaged the hanging chad fiasco in Florida in the 2000 presidential election, died...
Lois Curtis, whose lawsuit secured disability rights, dies at 55
Lois Curtis, who was institutionalized for decades, was lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case on integrating mentally disabled people in the community.
Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, is dead at 93
Nick Holonyak Jr. invented a visible red-light diode. His 41 patents also included lasers that enabled DVD and CD players. The godfather of LED has...
We know the pledge. Its author, maybe not
For well over a century, the Pledge of Allegiance has been a pillar of America’s national identity. New evidence has emerged, though, to indicate that...
John Roach, a pioneer of the personal computer, is dead at 83
John Roach, who helped make the home computer ubiquitous in the late 1970s by introducing the Tandy TRS-80, has died. He was 83.
Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who sued deniers, dies at 95
As the sole survivor of his family and a living witness to what was being trivialized and even denied, Mel Mermelstein refused to let the...