He died from complications of leukemia after surgery .
George Irving Bell ( August 4 , 1926 -- May 28 , 2000 ) was an American physicist , biologist and mountaineer , and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley .
George Irving Bell died from complications of leukemia after surgery .
George Irving Bell ( August 4 , 1926 -- May 28 , 2000 ) was an American physicist , biologist and mountaineer , and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley .