Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - Notable Cases

Notable Cases

• Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam (1926–1996), a world renowned scientist and first and only Muslim or Pakistani man to win the Nobel Prize in Physics (1979) for his gauge unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, which forms the basis of the Standard Model in particle physics.
• Teel Bivins (1947–2009), a former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden and a former member of the Texas State Senate from Amarillo, Texas, died at the age of sixty-one of progressive supranuclear palsy, first diagnosed in 2006, while he was in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Leonard Krieger (1918–1990), was an American historian of modern Europe, particularly known as an author on Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism. Krieger taught at Columbia University and The University of Chicago until his death from PSP.
• Musician/Actor Dudley Moore, who suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy, increased public awareness of this disease. He died on March 27, 2002 at the age of sixty-six from its complications.
• Lee Philips, the 1950s actor-turned-director of such shows as Peyton Place and The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, also died after suffering from this disease.
• American singer Teresa Brewer ("Music! Music! Music!"), 76, died of this disease on October 17, 2007.
• Film director and playwright Joshua Logan
• Abe Pollin, D.C. sports mogul, longest tenured owner of an NBA franchise (since 1964) Washington Wizards, 85, died of this disease on November 24, 2009.
• Dr. Anne Turner, who was the basis of the BBC drama A Short Stay in Switzerland about assisted suicide.
• Jon Hassler, author
• Richard Rainwater, investor
• Geoff Miller, Co-founder, editor, and publisher of Los Angeles Magazine, 1936-2011