BIOLOGY
Clinton Richard Dawkins -
emohasized on the role of the
genes in evolution and
developed the new discipline
of genetic ethology.
- he is best known for his
genecentred reformulation of
Charles Darwin's theory of
natural selection
- has authored several books
and produced numerous
television documentaries
Juliane Koepcke- She
graduated from the University
of Kiel, in zoology, in 1980.
- She received a doctorate
from Ludwig-Maximilian
University and returned to
CHEMISTRY
Elias James Corey - a
distinguished American
organic chemist who was
awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in
Chemistry’ in 1990 for his
scientific contributions in the
development of theory and
methodology of organic
synthesis, particularly
retrosynthetic analysis.
- His book ‘The Logic of
Chemical Synthesis’ consists
of a proper elucidation of the
concept of retrosynthetic
analysis, which is a systematic
method of chemical synthesis
involving effective
transformation of a target
molecule to simpler precursor
structures.
Yuan Tseh Lee- Lee had
specifically worked on the use
of advanced chemical kinetics
techniques to investigate the
behaviour of chemical
reactions.
PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY
Professor Thorne Kip - spent
40 years of his life working on
gravitational waves and black
holes.
- Proving the existence of
gravitational waves helped in
explaining the behavior of
objects in space and time, or
spacetime as it is fondly
called.
- Thorne was the first
physicist to prove Einstein
right by building a device that
can detect the presence of
this wave. This device is called
the LIGO -Laser
Interferometer Gravitational
Wave Observatory.
Andre Geim Konstantin - Geim
received a Nobel price in 2010
for his work on Graphene. He
discovered a method for
isolating a single atomic layer
of graphite which is referred
Peru to conduct research in
mammalogy, specializing in
bats.
- She published her thesis,
Ecological study of a Bat
Colony in the Tropical
Rainforest of Peru in 1987.
Currently, she serves as
librarian at the Bavarian State
Zoological Collection in
Munich.
E. O. Wilson - Edward
Osborne Wilson or better
known as E. O. Wilson is one
of the world’s leading expert
in the field of biology.w
- 1956 was a very productive
year in Wilson’s career as he
was successful in making
more than one discovery.
- The first was the discovery
of pheromones in ants that
help in their communication
and the second was the
discovery of the taxon cycle
which chronicled the changing elucidation of the enzymatic
habitats of different species.
- experimented with and to as graphene.
further developed
- Graphene is an awesome
Herschbach’s technique and
material and could be the
introduced mass spectroscopy
solution to an everlasting
to identify the products
screen for our smartphone as
resulting from the reactions of
it is said to be 200 times
oxygen and fluorine atoms
stronger than the normal
with complex organic
steel and has the ability to be
compounds.
incredibly flexible and light.
Sir John Ernest Walker - Stephen Hawking - Hawking's
Walker’s atomic resolution work was based mostly on the
structure supported the field of physics and astronomy
binding change mechanism and made a ground breaking
and rotary catalysis for the contribution in the General
ATP synthase, one of the Relativity.
catalytic mechanisms
- Hawking has also proven
proposed by Paul Boyer.
many theorems on the laws
- The work done by Walker that governs black holes using
was later published in 1994, the cosmological models.
which led to his share of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in
1997.
- he is credited for the
mechanism underlying the
synthesis of adenosine
triphosphate (ATP).