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Dec 9, 2009
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Toyoichi Tanaka

Age: 54

biophysicist who created “smart gels” by blending fluids and polymers. The gels have been used to clean up oil spills and in manufacturing cosmetics. He died of a heart attack.

Died: Wellesley, Mass., May 20, 2000

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