ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 32 | Published On 24/03/2025 |
The world has lost one of its marvelous scientists this year. On 17th of August, Karry Mullis breathed his last in Newport Beach, California, USA. In the year 1983, he invented a technique for in vitro amplification of DNA in the laboratory known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Because of
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Friends, bringing to you yet another story of the life of another famous physicist who was the winner of Nobel Prize in the year 2010 for his groundbreaking experiments on the two-dimensional material graphene. Yes, I am talking about Dr. Andre Geim. Along with Konstantin Novoselov, Andre Geim could produce only
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This is the story of the Nobel Laurate, Ronald Ross during his research on Malaria. Ronald Ross was an India-born British citizen, who was awarded Nobel Prize for his invaluable contribution in identifying the transmission cycle of the mosquito-borne haemo-protozoan disease, malaria. Ronald Ross was born in Almora in the present
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The Nobel laureate, whose story I am going to highlight today, is one of the pioneers in the field of Reproductive Biology; his ground-breaking discovery could bring smiles to millions of infertile couples. Let me cut the long story short and tell about the struggle and success of Sir Robert
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Going through the biography of this Nobel laureate has once again reminded me of a famous quote by someone- “Nothing great was ever accomplished without making sacrifices”. Indeed, it is true not only for this great scientist, but for all who could achieve something extraordinary in life. Sacrifice and success have always
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Friends, today I am going to throw some light in the very inspiring life of another Nobel Laureate from Asia, Japanese physicist, Dr. Shuji Nakamura. He was awarded Nobel in Physics in the year 2014 with two others, for invention of Blue LED (Light-emitting diodes). Shuji Nakamura was born on
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It has been for the last five issues of BioNE that I have been writing in this section, focusing short and inspiring stories of Nobel Laureates, but this issue is indeed very special for me because I am writing about a fellow Indian, who made the nation proud by winning
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Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan by birth an Indian, presently a US citizen, a great scientist and a living legend was conferred with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2009. Today, I will try to shed light into the glorious and inspiring path he travelled from being a
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Proteinaceous Infectious Particle, commonly abbreviated as ‘prion’, is now known as the cause of a number of diseases in animals and human. The examples of such animal diseases include Scrapie in sheep, Transmissible Encephalopathy of mink, Chronic Wasting Disease of cervids, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy of cattle. In human, it
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On December 10, 2010 about 5000 guests across the entire globe thronged the beautifully decorated Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway to witness the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. Unlike the previous years, the ceremony that year was little different because the winner of the prize could not be present at Oslo
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