Carol Cole, 64, an actress and sister to singer Natalie Cole, has died.
Natalie Cole’s publicist, Maureen O’Connor, said her older sister died Monday, the same day Natalie received a kidney transplant.
Carol Cole, who went by the nickname Cookie, appeared on her father’s “The Nat King Cole Show” on television in the 1950s and went on to appear on TV and in movies in the 1960s and ’70s.
Robert F. Furchgott, 92, a scientist who won a share of a Nobel Prize and whose work helped lead to the development of Viagra, died Tuesday in Seattle.
Furchgott worked with the gas nitric oxide, which led to new research in cardiovascular functions. Nitric oxide had been known as a pollutant that contributed to smog and acid rain, but research by Furchgott and others found it was an important signal in the cardiovascular system, mediating blood pressure and blood flow.
The scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1998 for providing the first proof that a gas can perform important biochemical functions in the body.
