Legends of South African Science
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Date
2017
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Volume Title
Publisher
Academy of Science of South Africa
Sponsorship
Department of Science and Technology
Abstract
Legends of South African Science introduces Academy Members who rank among the top achievers in the country.
Legends profiles ASSAf Members who have received some of South Africa’s top awards, viz. the ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medal, National Orders of Mapungubwe and Baobab bestowed by the President, or the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship.
Among the Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV/AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.
Description
Cite: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Legends of South African Science. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
Subject
Quarraisha Abdool Karim , Salim Abdool Karim , Jill Adler , Patricia Berjak , Thomas Bothwell , Sydney Brenner , Arthur Chaskalson , Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan , Paul Cilliers , Eugene Cloete , Darrell Commins , Hoosen Coovadia , Anna Coutsoudis , Robin Crewe , George Ekama , George Ellis , Jacobus (Kobus) Eloff , Bernie Fanaroff , Jill Farrant , Wieland Gevers , David Glasser , Glenda Gray , Diane Hildebrandt , Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr , Jonathan Jansen , Trefor Jenkins , Johann Lutjeharms , Malegapuru William Makgoba , Walter Marasas , Tshilidzi Marwala , Bongani Mayosi , Duncan Mitchell , Valerie Mizrahi , Phuti Ngoepe , Wiseman Nkuhlu , Tebello Nyokong , Claire Penn , Mamokgethi Phakeng , Nyameko Barney Pityana , Daya Reddy , Helen Rees , Michael Samways , Barry Schoub , Friedel Sellschop , Olive Shisana , Sibusiso Sibisi , Himla Soodyall , Pieter Steyn , Paul van Helden , Brian van Wilgen , Brian Warner , Brenda Wingfield , Mike Wingfield , ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medal , National Order of Mapungubwe , National Order of Baobab , Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship , Winston A HideCitation
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Legends of South African Science. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012