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The Columbia University geochemist is credited with popularizing the term “climate change” and his research shaped the modern understanding of water circulation in the ocean.

The nephew of Lily Pereg, a microbial ecologist at the University of New England in Australia, has been arrested on homicide charges.

The UCSD psychiatry researcher championed the concept of mental illness as a neurobiological condition and helped form the US government’s Decade of the Brain initiative.

The scientist and clinician helped develop a new form of cancer therapy, using a monoclonal antibody to treat head, neck, colorectal, and lung cancers.

The Indiana University professor was known for his research on the evolution of organismal development.

The former head of cancer medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center helped change clinical practice for laryngeal cancer and helped establish chemoprevention.

The head of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases was a leader in the study of skin-based immunology.

The scientific community said goodbye to a number of leading researchers this year.

The chemist and biophysicist won a Nobel prize for the development of a technique to probe the structures of nucleotide-protein complexes.

Her work changed the discipline by bringing rigorous experimentation to field studies of monkeys and baboons.

Breslau found that interpersonal traumas, not just combat or natural disasters, can cause post-traumatic stress disorder.

Gates was director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and a strong advocate for coral conservation.

Cohn was a leader in gene regulation and immune system research and left a lasting legacy in La Jolla.

The 90-year-old marine biologist won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his isolation of green fluorescent protein.

Steitz determined the atomic structure of the ribosome, work for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Revered as a humanitarian and scientist, Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas.

An accomplished infectious disease scientist, Meyers spent the 1960s treating and studying the condition in central Africa.

He established the San Diego Zoo’s cryopreserved Frozen Zoo.

The 51-year-old University of Cape Town researcher had been suffering from depression, and his death has prompted reflection on being a black academic in South Africa.