Topic: Columbia University
Giauque, William Francis (1895-1982), an American chemist, won the 1949 Nobel Prize in chemistry for pioneer work in cryogenics, the field of very low temperatures. Giauque was born of American parents in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Giauque studied at the University of ...
Vetlesen Prize, a prize awarded every three years for " " The Vetlesen Prize is intended to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the field of geophysics. The prize was established in 1959 by the estate of G. Unger Vetlesen ...
Experimenting with fruit flies, Muller found that mutations (changes in the structure of the genes) can be X rays. Muller's work took on added significance after the introduction of nuclear weapons and the realization of the effects that nuclear explosions can have ...
Bridges, Calvin Blackman (1889-1938) was an early geneticist whose pioneering work helped formulate important basic concepts. Bridges met geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, who played a pivotal role in Bridges's scientific interests. By 1910, Morgan had made Bridges his lab assistant in studies ...
Commoner, Barry (1917-) is an American biologist and educator who has become known as a leading environmental activist. Barry Commoner was born in New York City to Isidore and Goldie Yarmolinsky Commoner. Edward Uhler Condon was an American physicist who made great ...
Misfolded proteins known as prions cause mad cow disease and other fatal neurodegenerative illnesses. That's changed, thanks to an intriguing finding by electrophysiologist Stuart Firestein of Columbia University. Firestein and colleagues were studying the sense of smell in mice when they noticed ...
As if gimpy knees, clogged arteries, and forgetfulness weren't bad enough, new research has identified another way our bodies falter as we get older. To answer this question, cell biologist Martin Hetzer of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, ...
In 1991 NASA conducted a symposium where they presented the latest climate and weather research findings. The attendees read like who's who in academic research, as it included, among others, representatives from the National Science Foundation, MIT, and Columbia University 's Lamont-Doherty ...
Eighty-five young scientists and engineers were singled out today by the White House. President Obama today named 85 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science ...
THIS intense and engrossing short film re-enacts a 1939 meeting at Columbia University that altered the course of history. Physicist Leo Szilard has just realised that splitting atoms can cause a chain reaction of nuclear fission that will release enough energy to ...
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