Obituaries
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Robert Enke: International goalkeeper who committed suicide
The goalkeeper Robert Enke, who was widely tipped for the No 1 position in Germany's team for the World Cup finals in South Africa next year, was killed by an express train on 10 November. Jörg Neblung, Enke's friend and adviser, confirmed that "Robert took his own life."
Inside Obituaries
A. John Poole: Sculptor, letter-cutter and restorer whose love of architecture informed his monumental works
Monday, 16 November 2009
Anthony John Poole was one of the most distinguished and versatile British architectural sculptors, letter-cutters and restorers during the last half-century. His base was the Midlands, which has many of his sculptures, but his fine and often monumental works are to be found much further afield. Britain produced many excellent figurative sculptors during the 20th century whose achievement is now slowly being evaluated. The work of such skilled practitioners as Bainbridge Copnall, Frank Dobson, George Fullard, Richard Garbe, A. H. Gerrard, Dora Gordine, Maurice Lambert and Leon Underwood has for too long been overshadowed by a national near-obsession with a few names such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore.
Vitaly Ginzburg: Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped the Soviet Union develop the hydrogen bomb
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Jewish Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist, who was "saved" by the hydrogen bomb, died in a Moscow hospital on 8 November aged 93. He was widely regarded as one of the fathers of the Soviet H-bomb.
Lives Remembered: Liz Laycock
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Liz Laycock, an inspirational educationalist who died in September, spent the early years of her career teaching in London primary schools before working as an adviser with the prestigious Centre for Language in Primary Education (CLPE). After her appointment to Roehampton University London she ran the English Education team for many years as well the Primary PGCE course. She retired from Roehampton in 2003.
Parry Gordon: Rugby league scrum-half regarded as unlucky not to play for Britain
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Parry Gordon had a good claim to being the best scrum-half never to play for Great Britain, but he went a long way towards making up for that omission with a long and distinguished career for his only club.
Obits in Brief: Dr. William Ganz
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Dr. William Ganz, who died on 10 November aged 90, was a pioneering cardiologist who co-invented a specialised catheter. In 1970, Dr. H.J.C. Swan and Ganz, who was born in Slovakia and moved to the US in 1966, invented a balloon-tipped catheter which measures heart function and blood flow in critically ill patients.
Qian Xuesen: Scientist and pioneer of China's missile and space programmes
Friday, 13 November 2009
Qian Xuesen was a rocket scientist who was regarded as the father of China's missile and space technology programme.
Shelby Singleton: Record producer who unearthed undiscovered treasures in the vaults of the Sun label
Friday, 13 November 2009
The record producer and label owner Shelby Singleton is associated with several American hits of the 1960s but he will be best remembered for his re-marketing of the Sun Records catalogue in Memphis. He admitted that he had no great musical talent, but he knew what record buyers wanted to hear.
Bishop Werner Krusche: Bishop who played a crucial role in reconciling the two halves of Germany
Friday, 13 November 2009
Werner Krusche was a bishop in the East German Protestant Church who clashed with the ruling SED, Communists as he sought to gain concessions for Christians in the German Democratic Republic, but was eventually credited for his part in advancing Germany's re-unification.
Gavin Hodge: Celebrity hairdresser who scandalised Sixties society
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Gavin Hodge was a hugely fashionable hairdresser who, beginning in the London of the swinging Sixties, packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex.
Professor Thamsanqa Kambule: Inspirational teacher who fought for high-quality black education in apartheid South Africa
Thursday, 12 November 2009
It was an article of faith among many whites in apartheid South Africa that blacks were incapable of doing mathematics. Their belief was that black brains were simply not up to it. Thamsanqa Wilkinson "Wilkie" Kambule mocked the myth and gave the lie to it: he was black and a gifted mathematician; he was also an inspiring teacher who spoke with pride of several pupils who emigrated and went on to study nuclear physics, a field denied to them at home.
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