Shattered Lives: The Faces Of A Tragic Flight

Kinder-Geiger, 36, wasn't your typical nerdy scientist. The German-born physicist liked to wear black clothes and an earring, hang out in rock-and-roll bars and play electric guitar. And when he wasn't researching the nature of plasma at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, he would paint or draw caricatures. "Klaus was an incredibly brilliant, energetic and imaginative young theorist," says co-worker Rob Pisarski.

Mary Lou Clements-Mann and Jonathan Mann

Columbia, Md.

Mann and his wife, both 51-year-old doctors, did pioneer work fighting AIDS. He founded the World health Organization's Global AIDS Program; she was an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins. But they were also renowned as passionate activists for human-rights causes linked to the disease. They led the campaign to develop an AIDS vaccine, arguing that it was the only hope for poor people worldwide. "Some people say there's no use trying to change the world," Mann said. "But if we don't try, will it change?

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