Paralyzed in a car accident during college, she overcame her disability to become a Justice Department lawyer and serve for more than two decades on the bench.
He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as they made their way back to Earth.
After half a century in the United States, she returned to live in her native Berlin and became one of Germany’s most prominent survivors of the Holocaust.