LOreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Awarded
2012 LOreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Awarded
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Jill FarrantJill Farrant, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is a leading expert on resurrection plants, which 'come back to life' from a desic.. | Biology |
Cape Town Western Cape South Africa |
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Ingrid SchefferIngrid Scheffer is an Australian paediatric neurologist and senior research fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. She has made several major advances in the field.. | Medical |
Melbourne Victoria Australia |
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Frances AshcroftFrances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British geneticist and ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at .. | Medical |
Oxford England United Kingdom |
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Susana Lopez CharretonSusana López Charretón (born on 19 June 1957 in Mexico City) is a Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviri. She was a co-recipient (along her husband, Carlos Arias Ortiz) of both the 200.. | Biology |
Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico |
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Bonnie BasslerBonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist. She has been a professor at Princeton University since 1994.Bonnie Bassler was named 2012 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in.. | Biology |
Danville California United States |
2013 LOreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Awarded
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Francisca Nneka OkekeFrancisca Okeke is a Nigerian scientist and Professor of Physics at the University of Nigeria.Okeke has dedicated much of her career to studying the ionosphere and the “equatorial electroj.. | Geology |
Nsukka Enugu Nigeria |
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Reiko KurodaReiko Kuroda (born October 7, 1947) is a Japanese chemist who is a professor at the Department of Life Sciences at University of Tokyo.She won L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.. | Medical |
Tokyo Tōkyō Japan |
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Pratibha GaiPratibha L. Gai is Professor and Chair of Electron Microscopy and Director at The York JEOL Nanocentre (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of York, United Kingdom).She won L.. | Physics |
Heslington England United Kingdom |
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Marcia BarbosaMarcia C. Barbosa is a Brazilian physicist. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate s.. | Physics |
Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Brazil |
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Deborah S. JinDeborah S. Jin (born November 15, 1968) is a physicist and fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Professor Adjunct, Department of Physics at the University o.. | Physics |
Boulder Colorado United States |