Elli Kohen, 77, who moved from Turkey to the U.S., wrote a history of Turkish Jews and was a professor emeritus at University of Miami, died Dec. 9, 2007, of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Kohen’s other books covered his varied areas of interest and expertise, including oncology and myths about cats. (more…)
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Seymour Benzer, 86, a biologist whose research with fruit flies helped create the basis for modern neuroscience, died Nov. 30, 2007.
Benzer, the child of Jewish immigrants to Brooklyn from a Polish shtetl, was “one of the great scientists of our era,” Caltech Biology Department Chairman Elliot Meyerowitz said in a statement. “He was an amazing person, a truly original scientific thinker, and an adventurous character both in and out of his scientific work.”
He was described as brash and eccentric, “a free spirit with a taste for crashing Hollywood funerals and eating strange food (filet of snake, crocodile tail),” in a 2000 book profiling his work, “Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior,” by Jonathan Weiner. (more…)
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