September 1st 2010
Frank Garland, 60
Frank C. Garland, the UC San Diego epidemiologist who, with his brother Cedric, was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D in sunlight plays a role in preventing cancer and other diseases, died Aug. 17 at UCSD Thornton Hospital. He was 60 and had been suffering for nearly a year from cancer.
"His favorite expression was, 'I like observation and inference.' "