Browsing: age

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas—they flew out…

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research into the deadly lung disease in newborns led to life-saving…

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a…

For nearly 15 years, Paula Span has devoted much of her journalistic career to covering one topic: aging and the…

TD Allman, a freelance journalist who challenged American mythmaking in sharp, personal reporting over five decades on subjects as diverse…

Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top…

Daniel C. Lynch, a computer network engineer whose reports on networking equipment helped accelerate the commercialization of the Internet in…

Kathy Goldman, who dedicated her career as a civic leader to establishing food banks, pantries and free breakfast and lunch…

Ali Hassan Mwinyi, a teacher-turned-politician who led Tanzania as its second president after independence and helped dismantle the dogmatic socialism…

Jacob Rothschild, a wealthy financier, arts patron and philanthropist with close ties to Israel who broke with his family’s storied…