Mrs Tikvah Sterne (nee Alper) : physicist

dc.contributor.otherARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-30T10:36:54Z
dc.date.available2019-10-30T10:36:54Z
dc.date.issued1940
dc.descriptionScanned image of a photographic glass-plate negativeen_ZA
dc.description.abstractTikvah 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.librarianab2019en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipDigitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extent1 photo : black and whiteen_ZA
dc.format.mediumPDFen_ZA
dc.format.mediumOriginal medium: Glass-plate negativeen_ZA
dc.identifier.otherPE35
dc.identifier.otherNT53
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72040
dc.relation.ispartofHistoric glass plate category - Historicalen_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.subjectVeterinary scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectGlass negativeen_ZA
dc.subjectPhysicisten_ZA
dc.subjectScrapieen_ZA
dc.subjectSheep -- Diseasesen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- Historyen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- Photographsen_ZA
dc.titleMrs Tikvah Sterne (nee Alper) : physicisten_ZA
dc.typeStill Imageen_ZA

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