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dc.contributor.other | ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-30T10:36:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-30T10:36:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1940 | |
dc.description | Scanned image of a photographic glass-plate negative | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | Tikvah Alper was born in South Africa. She graduated with distinction in physics from University of Cape Town in 1929, and then studied in Berlin. In 1932, she returned to South Africa to marry the (later) renowned bacteriologist Max Sterne, the inventor of the most effective livestock vaccine for anthrax. Among many other initiatives and discoveries, she was among the first to find evidence indicating that the infectious agent in Scrapie does not contain nucleic acid: a finding that was instrumental in understanding the development of the Prion theory. Despite their growing scientific renown, in 1951, Max Sterne and Tikvah Alper were forced to leave South Africa because of their outspoken opposition to apartheid. (Source; Wikipedia) | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | ab2019 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | Digitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019 | en_ZA |
dc.format.extent | 1 photo : black and white | en_ZA |
dc.format.medium | en_ZA | |
dc.format.medium | Original medium: Glass-plate negative | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.other | PE35 | |
dc.identifier.other | NT53 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72040 | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Historic glass plate category - Historical | en_ZA |
dc.rights | ©2019 ARC- Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (Original) , University of Pretoria (Digital). Provided for educational purposes only. It may not be downloaded, reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the original copyright holder. Any attempt to circumvent the access controls placed on this file is a violation of copyright laws and is subject to criminal prosecution. Please contact the collection administrator for copyright issues. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Veterinary science | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Glass negative | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Physicist | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Scrapie | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Sheep -- Diseases | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- History | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- South Africa | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- Photographs | en_ZA |
dc.title | Mrs Tikvah Sterne (nee Alper) : physicist | en_ZA |
dc.type | Still Image | en_ZA |