• Question: which scientist is you idle

    Asked by item44bat to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 15 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by knit44bat, buzz44bat.
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      Marcello Valente answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I really appreciate the work of Craig Venter, he was able sequence Dna in a fast way but he also boosted the biotech industry.

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      Aoife McHugh answered on 15 Nov 2019: last edited 15 Nov 2019 4:18 pm

      Probably Rosalind Franklin, she worked hard to discover the structure of DNA and got very little credit. There weren’t many women scientists in the 1950s, the work she done has allowed us to understand and work with DNA today. Without her and her discoveries biology, genetics and science as a whole would be very different today.

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      Dheeraj Rathore answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Work of Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution”, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, fascinates me. He was a biologist who developed a semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. He is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.

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