The pioneer is generally considered to be Dr. William B. Coley, a New York surgeon whose work helped later generations of oncologists develop the field of cancer immunotherapy.
Founder of the clinical and academic gastroenterology unit at Mount Sinai School of Medicine over 50 years ago, Dr. Janowitz truly helped to develop the field of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis research.
Dr. Saul Amarel, who helped develop the field of artificial intelligence and founded the computer science department at Rutgers University, died on Wednesday in Princeton, N.J., where he lived.
Daniel Kahneman, the Princeton psychologist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for his role in developing the field of behavioral economics, is a night person.
Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass.
He was dedicated to developing the field of immunology and was a devoted and selfless mentor to hundreds of young researchers.
As e-health technologies continued to be developed, the field of telemedicine, in which telecommunication technologies are used to provide health care remotely, emerged.
Leon had a long and productive professional life, working at Met Life and developing the field of group health and life insurance.
Kleene, together with Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, and others, developed the field of recursion theory, which made it possible to prove whether certain classes of mathematical problems are solvable or unsolvable.
