Leading mathematician, professor Israel Gelfand dies in NJ at age 96

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gemstone engraved with the portrait of Alexander the Great during excavations at Tel Dor in Israel. This tiny gem was dug up by a volunteer during excavations by a team from the University of Washington-Seattle.

September 12th, 2009 Hebrew Union College past president dies at 79CINCINNATI — A spokeswoman says the former president and chancellor emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has died in Cincinnati. Hebrew Union spokeswoman Jean Bloch Rosensaft says Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk died Saturday.

September 10th, 2009 Denmark's Nobel prize winner Aage Bohr diesCOPENHAGEN — Aage Bohr, a nuclear physics professor and Nobel laureate like his famed father Niels Bohr, has died at age 87. Bohr in 1975 became the second Dane to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.

August 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Historians have said that Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei's invention of the telescope was more commercial in nature than an attempt to contribute in scientific progress. Galileo's telescope is today remembered as a revolutionary stargazing tool that changed Earth's standing in the heavens.

August 24th, 2009 Former Idaho researcher who cloned mule diesBOISE, Idaho — Gordon Woods, a veterinary scientist who helped create the world's first cloned mule, has died at the age of 57. Dell Rae Moellenberg, a spokeswoman at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., where Woods was a professor, says Woods passed away unexpectedly Thursday.

August 2nd, 2009 Former PLO spokesman Hout dies in Beirut at 77BEIRUT — Shafik Hout, a close aide to Yasser Arafat who fell out with the late Palestinian leader over the 1993 peace accords with Israel, died here on Sunday. He was 77. A statement released by the Palestinian Authority's representative office in Beirut did not give the cause of Hout's death but an official at the office reached by telephone said he died of cancer at the American University hospital Sunday morning.

July 31st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel has sought help from the US to build a nuclear power plant in the country, a media report said Friday. Israel has already conveyed its request to the US, the Ynet news service reported.

July 21st, 2009 "Yellow Submarine" art director diesSTUTTGART, Germany — Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine," has died, his former employer said. He was 75. Edelmann died Tuesday afternoon in a Stuttgart hospital, according to the city's State Academy of Art and Design, where he had worked as a professor until 1999.

July 7th, 2009 Orman, critic who seized Lieberman's party, diesTRUMBULL, Conn. — John Orman, a professor who seized control of the political party Sen.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A mathematical problem, which involves the relationship between different mathematical structures, has been finally solved after more than 50 years. The problem, at the interface of two mathematical areas, topology and algebraic geometry, that was formulated by Friedrich Hirzebruch, had resisted all attempts at a solution for more than 50 years.

June 10th, 2009 Nechemia Meyers, veteran journalist, dies at 79REHOVOT, Israel — Veteran Israeli-American journalist Nechemia Meyers, for decades associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science, has died after a long illness. He was 79. Meyers served as publications director and spokesman of the Rehovot-based university for 32 years until his retirement in 1995.

June 2nd, 2009 Ex-Harvard College dean Ernest May dies at age 80CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University history professor and former dean Ernest May has died.

May 9th, 2009 Hollywood writer John Furia Jr. dies at age 79LOS ANGELES — Prolific screen and television writer John Furia Jr., who penned popular series including "Bonanza," ''The Waltons," and "Hawaii Five-O" among many others, has died, according to a statement from the Writers Guild of America West.

April 30th, 2009 UCSB prof probed after comparing Israel to NazisSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The University of California, Santa Barbara, is investigating allegations of improper conduct and anti-Semitism against a Jewish professor who compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust.

April 29th, 2009 Va. professor dies after being struck by baseballLYNCHBURG, Va. — An assistant professor at Liberty University in Virginia has died after being hit by a baseball at a neighboring college athletic field.