He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor of religion and a mother with whom he never bonded. […]
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Back to news homeGordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, the California semiconductor chip maker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achieving the kind of industrial dominance once […]
John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison
By 2015, he was back in the United States and, after an arrest in Tennessee on gun and drunken-driving charges, ran for president as a Libertarian, with his campaign video […]
Loretta Whitfield, Whose Black Doll Was ‘Ahead of Its Time,’ Dies at 79
In the early 1980s, Melvin Whitfield was working for a health nonprofit in West Africa when he came to a realization: Few of the children he encountered had dolls, and […]
Narinder S. Kapany, ‘Father of Fiber Optics,’ Dies at 94
But Dr. Kapany was growing restless in academia, and in 1960 he moved his family to California to start a new company, Optics Technology, to commercialize his research. He based […]
Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Size Fashion, Is Dead at 82
Nancye Radmin, a pioneer of plus-size fashion who for two decades ran an upscale chain of stores, the Forgotten Woman, that served a group of women who had otherwise been […]
Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Size Fashion, Is Dead at 82
Nancye Radmin, a pioneer of plus-size fashion who for two decades ran an upscale chain of stores, the Forgotten Woman, that served a group of women who had otherwise been […]
James D. Wolfensohn, Who Led the World Bank for 10 Years, Dies at 86
James D. Wolfensohn, who escaped a financially pinched Australian childhood to become a top Wall Street deal maker and a two-term president of the World Bank, died on Wednesday at […]