Topic: University Of California System

Glen Theodore Seaborg

Early in his career he helped discover nine chemical elements-the 2nd through 10th transuranium elements (elements heavier than uranium). Seaborg was chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 1961-71, the first scientist to direct the nation's atomic energy program.. After receiving ...

Joseph Erlanger

For work on the functions of the nerve threads, Erlanger shared with Herbert Spencer Gasser the 1944 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Erlanger was born in San Francisco and was educated at the University of California and at Johns Hopkins University.
Internet browsing has become a part of our life. "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults" , said Dr Gary Small, the principal investigator of the study. " ...
Density @ 293 K: This radioactive man-made element was first produced by the team of Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg, Bernard G. Harvey, Gregory R. Choppin and Albert Ghiorso in 1955. They were using the 60 inch cyclotron at the University ...
Density @ 293 K: It was first produced in December 1949 by the team of Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg, Kenneth Street, Jr. and Albert Ghiorso. At the time the scientists were working at the University of California campus in Berkeley, ...
Find out what new studies suggest about human attraction and genes. According to this article from British newspaper The Independent, "men who were rated as the most physically attractive by women have the lowest levels of markers of oxidative stress. Results show ...

Gene Associated With Bad Driving

University of California Irvine neurologist Dr. Steven Cramer did a study that showed that bad driving may have a genetic basis. People with a certain gene variant performed more than 20 percent worst in learning a new driving course in a simulator ...
Scientists believe that, in theory, the human life span, 120-year-old tortoise, 150-year-old dog, 20-year-old. For example, a geneticist at the University of California, Macross by choosing a longer life span of fruit flies to mate and cultivate that can live 70-80 days, ...

Scientists' Nightstand: Melvin Konner

Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. In other moods lately I'm reading my friend Charles McNair's not-yet-published novel Pickett's Charge (his first book, Land O'Goshen ...

Degrees in Animal Behavior

Bucknell University: Bachelor's in Animal Behavior Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is home of the first undergraduate program in animal behavior in the nation. edu Emory University: Master's in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior Atlanta's Emory University offers a master's degree in neuroscience ...
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