Topic: Southern Europe
Some 250 billion microscopic pieces of plastic are floating in the Mediterranean, creating a biological hazard that reverberates up the food chain, according to research supported by green campaigners.The estimate comes from French and Belgian marine biologists who analysed water samples taken ...
Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1909-), an Italian and American neurobiologist, became the fourth woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, which she shared in 1986 with American biochemist Stanley Cohen .. Levi-Montalcini and her fraternal twin sister Paola were ...
Dulbecco, Renato (1914-), an Italian-born American virologist, shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with David Baltimore and Howard Martin Temin of the United States for their research on how certain viruses affect the genes of cancer cells. At Levi's ...
Fermi returned home to Italy in 1924 to a position as a lecturer in mathematical physics at the University of Florence. Between 1926 and 1927, Fermi and the English physicist P.A.M. Dirac independently developed new statistics, now known as Fermi-Dirac statistics, to ...
Many researchers have said that Albert Einstein may have been mildly autistic or have suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, while others rebuke that theory, saying he did not fit the profile of either disorder. It was between the ages of four and five ...
Mosaics have always played an integral part in Roman culture and were ways of self-representation and showing one's cultural identity. In the North African town of Tysdrus in modern day Tunisia, two mosaics were laid down in a affluent home; one was ...
Zeolites are complex and beautiful hydrated inorganic structures that can best be described as molecular sieves since they can selectively separate gases and liquids on the molecular level by virtue of inherent supramolecular cage structures. The word zeolite roughly translates to ?boiling ...
Lead is the classic example of a heavy metal. Lead salts have a variety of hues - from white to red to yellow to black - lead paints were widely used for generations. Worse, lead paints have a sweet taste, so young ...
The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1938. The young Enrico Fermi won a fellowship allowing him to study at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. This atomic pile was set up in Chicago on, of ...
In benchmarking international research, although publication and citation analyses should not be used to compare different disciplines, scientometrists frequently fail to resist the temptation to present rankings based on total publications and citations. Such measures are affected by significant distortions, due to ...
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