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Lester D. Shubin, 84

Lester D. Shubin, 84, a Justice Department researcher who turned a DuPont fabric intended for tires into the first truly effective bulletproof vests, saving the lives of more than 3,000 law enforcement officers, died after a heart attack at his Fairfax County home.


ALBERT V. CREWE, 82

Albert V. Crewe, 82, a University of Chicago physicist whose ingenious contributions to electron microscope development made it possible to see the previously unseen and yielded photographs of individual atoms, died Nov. 20 at his home near Chicago. His death was attributed to Parkinson's disease.


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