Chemistry World5d
Eleven chemists who have been honoured with a blue plaque
To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...
‘Nerdiest football club on earth’: How the world’s top scholars made Aussie rules history
It’s a contest that rivals Carlton v Collingwood, only with the odd Nobel Prize thrown in. And it’s been going for 105 years.
pharmaphorum2d
A history of the pharmaceutical industry
After Alexander Fleming’s initial discovery of the penicillium mould’s antibiotic properties in 1928, and Howard Florey and ... year and its creators the Nobel Prize. This marked a new ...
Medscape2d
The Millennium in Infectious Diseases: Focus on the Last Century 1900-2000
Fleming's discovery of penicillin, initially largely ignored, was elaborated and expanded by Howard Florey and his colleagues. Diseases formerly deadly were cured as if by miracle; the change in ...
The New York Times2d
The Learning Network
New surveys report that boys are feeling discouraged in the classroom and are less likely to go to college. Is this true in your experience? By Shannon Doyne How do these journalists craft ...
PBS3d
history of medicine
Rosalyn S. Yalow was a giant of medicine. A Nobel laureate and medical physicist, Yalow co-discovered the radioimmunoassay, an exquisitely sensitive means of using “radioactive tracers” to ...