Arlen Specter: A retrospective

摘要

Former United States Senator Arlen Specter, for many years one of the nation's most passionate and effective advocates for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), died at home in Philadelphia of a fulminant B-cell lymphoma on October 14, 2012, at age 82.Famed as a student debater, trained as a lawyer, introduced to politics as a Philadelphia prosecutor, elected to the US Senate, and brought to national prominence as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Specter's interests were hardly confined to science and health.