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Legends of South African Science
Year of Publication : 2017
Language : en
Keywords : Quarraisha Abdool KarimSalim Abdool KarimJill AdlerPatricia BerjakThomas BothwellSydney BrennerArthur ChaskalsonAnusuya Chinsamy-TuranPaul CilliersEugene CloeteDarrell ComminsHoosen CoovadiaAnna CoutsoudisRobin CreweGeorge EkamaGeorge EllisJacobus (Kobus) EloffBernie FanaroffJill FarrantWieland GeversDavid GlasserGlenda GrayDiane HildebrandtJan-Hendrik HofmeyrJonathan JansenTrefor JenkinsJohann LutjeharmsMalegapuru William MakgobaWalter MarasasTshilidzi MarwalaBongani MayosiDuncan MitchellValerie MizrahiPhuti NgoepeWiseman NkuhluTebello NyokongClaire PennMamokgethi PhakengNyameko Barney PityanaDaya ReddyHelen ReesMichael SamwaysBarry SchoubFriedel SellschopOlive ShisanaSibusiso SibisiHimla SoodyallPieter SteynPaul van HeldenBrian van WilgenBrian WarnerBrenda WingfieldMike WingfieldASSAf Science-for-Society Gold MedalNational Order of MapungubweNational Order of BaobabHarry Oppenheimer FellowshipWinston A Hide
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Abstract (English) : 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
Publisher : Academy of Science of South Africa
Citation : 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
Sponsorship : Department of Science and Technology
DOI : 10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
ISBN : 978-0-9947076-7-3
Resource URL(Other) : http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
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