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Our #ScientistThisWeek is #PierreCurie a French #physicist a pioneer in #crystallography #magnetism, #piezoelectricity, and radioactivity #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #DarshanRanganathan an organic chemist from India who was known for her work in bio-organic chemistry, including pioneering work in protein folding #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #NielsBohr a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding #atomic structure and #quantum theory, for which he received the #NobelPrize in #physics in 1922 #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #SofiaKovalevskaya a #Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and #mechanics #maths #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #MauriceWilkins a #NewZealand -born #physicist & #molecularbiologist whose research contributed to #opticalmicroscopy, #development of #Radar & work at King's College London on the structure of #DNA #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #RosalynSussmanYalow an #American #Medical #physicist, winner of the 1977 #NobelPrize for development of the #radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique; the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #FranciscoMojica a #Spanish #microbiologist known for having made early contributions (1993) describing the repeated CRISPR sequences in archaea which later crystallized in the development of #CRISPRCas #technology #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #JenniferDoudna an #American #biochemist who was one of the #scientists who first proposed #CRISPRCas9 (enzymes from bacteria that control microbial immunity) could be used for #programmable #editing of #genomes #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #GeorgeWashingtonCarver an American #agricultural #scientist and #inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent #soil #depletion. #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #LindaBuck an #American #biologist best known for her work on the #olfactorysystem. She was awarded the 2004 #NobelPrize in #physiology or #medicine along with #RichardAxel, for their work on #olfactory #receptors #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
Our #ScientistThisWeek is #EnricoFermi an Italian #physicist creator of the world's first #nuclear #reactor. He was called the "architect of the nuclear age and the #atomicbomb & won the #NobelPrize (1938) for discovering #transuranium #elements. #SSO @BritSciAssoc #SheffScience
