Abby Mann, 80, writer of socially conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for "Judgment at Nuremberg," died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

He also won multiple Emmys, including one in 1973 for "The Marcus-Nelson Murders," which created a maverick New York police detective. The film was spun off into the long-running TV series "Kojak."

Wally Phillips, 82, the most listened-to Chicago radio host for two decades, died Thursday.

The broadcaster's skillful blend of information and humor made him a pioneer of talk radio.

He dominated Chicago's radio airwaves after taking over WGN's morning show in 1965. At the height of his popularity, he had an audience of nearly 1.5 million -- about half the listeners in the Chicago area.

Harvey Picker, 92, a pioneering physicist, inventor and businessman who went on to a second career in higher education before focusing on the promotion of patient-centered health care, died Saturday at his home in Maine.

The son of the founder of Picker X-Ray Co., he led the family business into such fields as cobalt therapy for cancer, nuclear imaging diagnostics and ultrasound for oceanography, which was adapted for medical imaging.

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