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The Viennese musical prodigy fled to the United States after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938; it would be three-quarters of a century before he created musical remembrances of surviving the Holocaust and exile.
Mr. Lee, a Chinese American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957 for overturning what had been considered a fundamental law of nature — that particles are always symmetrical — died Sunday at his home in San Francisco.
The rovers searched successfully in freezing deserts and mineral deposits for geological clues to whether the planet’s environment had supported water in ancient times. They vastly outlasted their expected length of service.
Mr. Shapiro, whose career included stints as a presidential speechwriter, stand-up comic, professor, author and, as a recent college graduate, congressional candidate, died on July 21 in Manhattan.
Mr. Scott, whose studies on why top-down government schemes of betterment often fail and how marginalized groups subtly undermine authority led to his embrace of anarchism as a political philosophy, died July 19 at his home in Durham, Conn.
Ms. Robinson, an author and journalist who found fame for chronicling Hollywood’s darker side in “Bed/Time/Story,” died July 19 at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ms. Jaffe, an NPR correspondent for roughly 40 years who was known for her unflinching approach to journalism and was the first editor of the network’s initial iteration of the weekly national news show “Weekend Edition Saturday,” died Thursday.
Floyd Layne won both the NCAA and NIT basketball championships with the City College of New York in 1950 but shattered his career in a point-shaving scandal.
