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This week's #KnowThemSTEM is Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992), who was an American scientist and cytogeneticist awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of transposable genetic elements, aka "jumping genes".
This week's #KnowThemSTEM hero is Dr. Munjed Al Muderis, an adjunct clinical professor in orthopedic surgery, author, and human rights activist. He developed the technique of osseointegration for prosthetic limb implants. This process increases osseoperception through...
#KnowThemSTEM Werner Heisenberg. You maybe have heard about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but did you know that this brilliant theoretical physicist nearly failed his doctorate exam? A skeptical committee member asked him how a battery worked, & he had no idea.
Today’s #KnowThemSTEM is CV Raman, who you may know for his work in studying light scattering (Raman scattering/effect) He also investigated the harmonic nature of indian drums and was 1st non white, 1st Asian person to receive a Nobel in science. He was the 2nd of 8 siblings!
#KnowThemSTEM is hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, whose research career has been marked with incredible resilience in the face of struggle, and thanks to her findings we now have the mRNA based vaccine tech that was used for covid-19 vaccines.
this week’s #KnowThemSTEM is related to the Beer Lambert Law used for example, for spectrophotometrically determining protein concentration. Johann Heinrich Lambert, a Swiss polymath, is typically given credit. But the law was actually discovered by Pierre Bouguer.
there are 2 #KnowThemSTEM heroes this week. this weeks other historical scientist you should know is Alma Levant Hayden. She was an expert in spectrophotometry and became Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S. FDA.
#KnowThemSTEM hero Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist who pioneered chemical synthesis from medicinal plants. Without him we wouldn’t have industrial scale production of synthetic human hormones like cortisone, corticosteroids, or progesterone.
Dr. Daly retired in 1986 to her flute playing, her garden, and her beloved dogs. #KnowThemSTEM
this week’s #KnowThemSTEM hero is a Dutch chemist who published more than 400 (!) papers and many books on physical chemistry & science history. Ernst Julius Cohen helped discover tin allotropes, did research on polymorphism, electrochem, thermochem, & piezochem
#KnowThemSTEM The eccentric John Desmond Bernal, aka “The Sage”, an Irish scientist who 1st applied x-ray crystallography in mol bio. A highly regarded political activist who also published many popular books on science, science history, and society.
#KnowThemSTEM Maud Menten, co-developer of the Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics equation, enjoyed many adventurous and artistic hobbies. She played the clarinet, painted paintings worthy of art exhibitions, climbed mountains, went on an Arctic expedition, and enjoyed astronomy.
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