Mrs Tikvah Sterne (nee Alper) : physicist

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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 PDF 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
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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


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