[Wonder Warthog]

"I know there are a number of chemists that have been killed world wide in the past couple of years. Wonder if this one is related?"

The context of the article implies that the victim was NOT a chemist, but probably a microbiologist. Other articles from Google call him a microbiologist.

The other "suspicious cases" all involved microbiologists.

[John H K]

No, there was a vast spectrum, including doctors.

And actually I haven't seen a thread mentioning a biologist/doctor death in over a year, I think.

There are lots of them, and sometimes they'll die tragically.

[ruoflaw]

thanks! that was the word I was looking for