Obituaries

Ralph Steinman, whose research and discoveries in cell biology not only changed the field of immunology but also extended his own fight against pancreatic cancer, died Sep. 30, three days before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine along with two other scientists. In the first incident of its type, the Nobel committee awarded […]

Russian filmmaker Tatyana Lioznova, who helmed a Soviet-era TV series featuring a patriotic spy with James Bond-like characteristics, died Sep. 29 in Moscow at 87. Lioznova’s series, “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” featured Soviet spy Maxim Isayev – alias Stirlitz, “a deep cover agent providing vital intelligence against the Gestapo at the end of the Second […]