Deaths

Dr. Lucie Adelsberger, 75, medical researcher and immunologist who discovered a link between red blood cell changes as an incipient cancer warning; imprisoned in Auschwitz by the Nazis, she reported her ordeal in her best-seller A Report of the Facts, 2 November 1971.

Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, 93, a Mayo Clinic specialist (1926-1951) who became a widely syndicated writer on health subjects after his retirement, 18 June 1978.

Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, developer of the Apgar Score, a test to determine quickly the health of a newborn infant, 7 August 1974.

Dr. Walter Sydney Atkinson, 86, prominent Canadian-born ophthalmologist and eye surgeon who presided over various professional organizations, 6 January 1978.

Dr. Pearce Bailey, 73, neurologist, author, and the first director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the National...

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