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Figures in contemporary science Flashcards

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who: strong inference

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John R. Platt

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who: important nuclear reactor designs

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Alvin Weinberg

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who: discovered the structure of DNA

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James Watson and Francis Crick, togther with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin

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who: discovered nucleic acid hybridization

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Alexander Rich

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who: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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who: 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for making significant contributions to work on the genetic code and devleopmental biology

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Sydney Brenner

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who: 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering bacterial conjugation

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Joshua Lederberg

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who: 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the regulation of transcription by enzymes

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François Jacob and Jacques Monod

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who: conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933

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Leo Szilard

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who: fist hydrogen bomb design

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Richard Garwin

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who: discovered the principles of color vision

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W. A. H. Rushton

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who: Theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin, also Wallace

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who: Darwin’s bulldog

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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who: father of microbiology; fermentation; pausterization; vaccines

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Louis Pasteur

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who: “Inheritability of acquired characters”

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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who: Dolly

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Sir Ian Wilmut

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who: sociobiology and ants; island biogeography

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E.O. Wilson

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who: island biogeography

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E.O. Wilson and Robert MacArthur

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who: miscrocpe; observation on bacteria and protozoa

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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who: microscopic anatomy

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Marcello Malpighi

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who: father of modern anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

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who: father of modern animal ecology

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Charles Elton

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who: faher of (general) ecology

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Eugene Odum

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who: evolutionary geneticist; “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”

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Theodosius Dobzhansky

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who: germ plasm theory (only gonadic cells trasnfer heritable information)

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August Weismann

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who: early pioneer in the study of social insect behaviour

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Charles Henry Turner

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who: mitochondria were once cells

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Lynn Margulis

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who: Nobel prize for piece for green revolution (increase in food production with fertilizers, varieties, and controlled irrigation)

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Norman Borlaug

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who: population growth outpaces agricultural production, causing famine or war

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Thomas Malthus

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who: 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine the dendritic cell (a type of immune cell) and its role in adaptive immunity

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Ralph M. Steinman (Canadian) and Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman

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who: discovery of molecualar receptors

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Robert J. Lefkowitz

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who: discovered protein folding

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Susan L. Lindquist

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who: PCR

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Kary Mullis

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who: genetic sequencing

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Frederick Sanger

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who: eletrophoresis

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Arne Tiselius

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who: bioinformatics

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Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper

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who: pitfall traps

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Dahl

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who: canola

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Stefansson and R.K. Downey

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who: increased plant diversity begets increased herbivore diversity, and in turn begets increased predator diversity.

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Darwin

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who: DNA barcoding

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Paul Hebert

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