ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 26 | Published On 12/09/2023 |
Friends, the story that I am sharing in this issue is from the life of an atom bomb survivor at Hiroshima in Japan, who spent rest of her life working for making the world free from nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). She worked under the banner
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The story of this issue is from the life of an Israeli scientist, Dr. Ada E. Yonath. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for solving the structure of ribosome for the first time. She shared this award with an India-born scientist, Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in the year 2009. Ada
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This interesting story sheds light on the life of Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2009 for her remarkable contribution relating to the discovery of the enzyme telomerase and for unveiling the how chromosomes can protect themselves from shortening during
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Dr. Luc Montagnier is the Nobel laureate whose real-life story is going to be discussed in this issue. He discovered the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the year 1983 and as a recognition of this great contribution in making the life of human better, he along with two other collaborators,
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Highlighting the snapshots of lives of Nobel laurates in the form of small, interesting yet motivating stories was the idea behind starting this section of BioNE. Sticking to the main theme, we are bringing to you another wonderful story from the biography of an eminent scientist, Dr. William C. Campbell.
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One of the nobel laureates of 2021, Dr. Abdulrazak Gurnah is a living example of how the place/environment of upbringing can have an impact on one’s life. Young Abdulrazak and his family were facing an uncertain future due to the political instability in his motherland during his teens. His family
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In this issue, I am going to highlight the struggle and success of an American Biochemist, a Nobel Laurate, Gertrude Belle Elion. She could not complete a formal PhD but was conferred with multiple honorary PhDs in her later life due to extraordinary research achievements. Dr. Ellion was awarded with
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The “Best Alarm Clock” of Dr. Harvey J. Alter’s life In continuation to my endeavour to bring to you some small interesting and funny incidents of the lives of the Nobel laureates, today I would like to shed some light on the eventful life of Dr. Harvey J. Alter, who was
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Here, I am bringing to you yet another story of a Nobel laurate, Konstantin Novoselov. He was awarded with the Nobel in Physics in the year 2010 for his ground-breaking experiments on the two-dimensional material graphene. Konstantin Novoselov was born in the year 1974 in a middle-sized industrial city Nizhny Tagil
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The Nobel laureate, the childhood story of whom I am going to tell today, was the recipient of award in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2018. A renowned immunologist by profession, he got this prestigious award for his outstanding contributions in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Yes, I am
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