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A theoretical physicist, James Bjorken played a key role in establishing the existence of the subatomic particles called quarks.
The top editor of People magazine in the 1990s, when its profits increased fourfold, Landon Jones's fascination with popular culture inspired him to write a 1980 book that helped popularize the term “baby boomer."
“Pretty Poison,” newspapers called it in the mid-1990s, when the deadly neurotoxin that causes botulism began to make headlines as a temporary wrinkle-eraser.
He retired in 1981 as the highest-ranking Black officer in the US military.
Ms. Bikel focused on criminal justice as a filmmaker for PBS’s “Frontline.”
He transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the Web and the rise of Amazon.com.
After a career as a Hollywood publicist, he operated one of the country’s largest vintage movie poster businesses in Boston, then online, and appraised ephemera for PBS's "Antiques Roadshow."
Mr. Butler, an anti-violence counselor with a gift for winning the trust of emotionally closed-off teenagers, died Aug. 4 at his home in New Orleans.
