Benjamin Franklyn as Scientist and Innovator
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Benjamin Franklin is considered an American patriot and founding father, but his careers and influence took him much further. As a "man of science" Franklin is best known for his experiments with electricity, but his lifelong curiosity also led him to explore an amazing range of scientific topics. He never quit pursuing new ideas as varied as music, agriculture, medicine, and electricity--to name but a few. Franklin also used his ideas to make practical inventions such a bifocal glasses, the lightning rod, the smokeless fireplace, and an ‘Armonica’.
Benjamin Franklin
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Library of Congress
1776 - first photo, 1744 - second photo
Library of Congress
First photograph - the Franklin Armonica. <br /><br />Second photograph - The Franklin Smokeless Stove<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-scientist.htm"><strong>Library of Congress</strong></a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Inventions_and_scientific_inquiries">Wikipedia</a>
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Benjamin Franklin, Science, Electricity, Inventions, Glasses, Fireplace
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Ruth E. Stark, Ph.D. - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Dr. Ruth Stark, distinguished professor of chemistry and acting dean of science at The City College of New York, is one of six extraordinary city employees to receive the 2012 Sloan Public Service Award. She was recognized Wednesday, March 14, at two ceremonies- on the CCNY campus and at Cooper Union- and was presented with the $10,000 prize that accompanies the award.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Dean Stark was honored for her contributions in bringing together talented scientists from complementary fields, for her excellence in mentoring and for being a role model to a generation of young women and men from diverse backgrounds.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In a video interview, Dean Stark credited CCNY’s and CUNY’s unique climate as a motivating factor: “The extra satisfaction of being at a public institution is that you can feel that you have unlocked something in students that was always there, but might not have come out to flower.”</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Having defied convention to become a chemist at a time when few women entered the field, Dean Stark is an eminent scientist and an inspiring role model for hundreds of young men and women from diverse backgrounds. She earned her PhD in physical chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and completed her postdoctoral training at MIT.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">After teaching at Amherst College, in 1985 Dr. Stark became an associate professor of chemistry at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) College of Staten Island and the institution’s first woman to build her own scientific research program. She became the founding director of the CUNY Macromolecular Assemblies Institute in 2003 and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2005.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">She and her team moved to CCNY in 2007. In June 2010, Professor Stark was appointed acting dean of science, a position from which she will soon step down to focus on teaching and research.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The author of 95 highly cited scientific papers, the selection committee recognized Dean Stark for her unique ability to assemble talent across disciplines. She initiated a research coordination network for emerging biomolecular technologies that has evolved into a worldwide support group funded by the National Science Foundation.</span></p>
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City College of New York
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City College of New York
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City College of New York
Source: <a href="http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/Chemist-Ruth-Stark-Receives-Sloan-Public-Service-Award.cfm">Chemist Ruth Stark Receives Sloan Public Service Award</a> (March 15, 2012). City College of New York. Retrieved May 15, 2015
Link: <a href="http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2012/#Stark_Ruth">Fund for the City of New York</a>
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Ruth E. Stark, Sloan Public Service, Chemistry, Science, Women, Awards
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Finding a Cure for Huntington's Disease
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For her groundbreaking work in the scientific and public arenas towards finding a cure for Huntington's disease and for increasing awareness of all genetic disease.
Dr. Wexler has played a pivotal role in recent progress toward a cure for Huntington's disease. Learning that her family was affected by the disease, she did not bemoan her situation, but rose to the challenge and used her adversity to set her life goal to conquering this late-onset, invariably fatal genetic disorder. Through her work with the Hereditary Disease Foundation, she has mobilized the American public to the importance of genetic diseases.
Working in Venezuela, Dr. Wexler and her colleagues constructed an enormous pedigree of over 13,000 individuals, collecting blood samples from more than 3000 people with Huntington's disease in their families. These samples led to the discovery of the Huntington's disease gene at the tip of human chromosome 4 and the recent identification of the gene itself.
Localization of the gene marked the first time that recombinant DNA markers were used successfully to identify a gene whose chromosomal assignment was unknown. The availability of markers tightly linked to the gene led to the development of a presymptomatic test for Huntington's disease. Dr. Wexler directed one of the world's first research programs on genetic counseling and delivery of this test.
Not only has she brought her formidable scientific talents to bear, but her personal charisma has marshaled an army of scientists, citizens and clinicians to work together to attack this genetic disease, and in so doing has provided an example to people working on analogous disorders in other fields.
Dr. Wexler serves as President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation, where she guides its unique workshop program designed to educate scientists and catalyze research on the key biological questions posed by Huntington's disease and other hereditary disorders. The Hereditary Disease Foundation, founded by Dr. Milton Wexler, has been a major vehicle for stimulating interest in Huntington's disease and allied disorders in the scientific community and bringing them to the attention of the public.
To Dr. Nancy Wexler, for her extraordinary research that led to the localization and later identification of the Huntington's disease gene and for mobilizing research, policy development and scientific advocacy in the worldwide effort to find a cure, this 1993 Albert Lasker Public Service Award is given.
Columbia University
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Columbia University
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Columbia University
Source: The Lasker Foundation. (n.d.). Albert Lasker public service award. In The lasker foundation. Reterieved October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/show/research-policy-and-advocacy-for-huntingtons-disease/">http://bit.ly/RjAYp2</a>
For Further Exploration Please Visit <a href="http://bit.ly/PhysNC">http://bit.ly/PhysNC</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.laskerfoundation.org/new-noteworthy/articles/q-nancy-wexler/">Nancy Wexler</a>
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Herbert Boyer
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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, thereby jump starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, he performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 LemelsonMIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991
Douglas A. Lockard
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Science History Institute
June 9 2005
Douglas A. Lockard
Science History Institute
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer">Wikipedia</a>
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Herbert Boyer, Biotech, Bacteria, Genetic Engineering, Science
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Penicillin
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Imperial War Museum
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Imperial War Museum
Between 1939 and 1945 - first photo, July 20 2009 - second photo
Imperial War Museum
Source: Penicillin. (2012, October 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved, November 20, 2012, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin</a>
For Further Exploration Please Visit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520913/">http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=11309&a=23624&l=sv</a> <br /><br />Documentary about Sir Alexander Fleming (3min) <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=343">http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=343</a>
First Photo - Alexander Fleming.<br /><br /><br />Second Photo - Formula. Medium: Photograph
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Science, Penicillin, Diseases, Syphilis, World War II, Antibiotics
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FDA Lab 3000
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Feb. 5, 2009; Irvine, CA An FDA microbiologist tests seafood samples for the presence of Salmonella.
Michael J. Ermarth
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
February 5 2009
Michael J. Ermarth
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety">Wikipedia</a> <br /><br />See also: <br /><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm257816.htm">Fish Hazards and Controls: More Than a Fish Story</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm094558.htm">How FDA Regulates Seafood: FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood</a>
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FDA, Science, Testing, Seafood, Salmonella, Food Safety
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National Science Foundation Celebrating 50 Years 1950-2000
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The U.S. national Science Foundation promotes the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare and to secure the national defense among other other purposes.
The "Nifty50" are NSF-funded inventions, innovations and discoveries that have become commonplace in our lives.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation<br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2000/nsb00215/nsb00215.pdf">The National Science Foundation Link to NSF Timeline</a>
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National Science Foundation
Link to <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nifty50/index.jsp">NSF Nifty50</a>
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Timeline
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It fits!
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As Chubarov (2001) put it, in a rapidly changing world, it was the “revolution of the microchip and the computer” taking place in the West that jeopardized the Soviet Union’s status as a great power under Leonid Brezhnev. The inability to incorporate the latest scientific and technological innovations into the production processes became the lid that sealed the coffin of the Soviet economy.
Oboznenko, D.
Rutgers, Continuum
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"Source: Holzer, M., Illiash, I., Gabrielian, V., & Kuznestsova, L. (2010). Red Tape from Red Square:Bureaucratic Commentary in Soviet Graphic Satirical Art. Poughkeepsie, NY: NetPublicaions Chubarov, A. (2001). <br /><br />Russia’s Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras. New York, London: Continuum."
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Tape-Square-Bureaucratic-Commentary/dp/0942942116">Red Tape</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Russias-Bitter-Path-Modernity-Post-Soviet/dp/0826413501">Modernity</a>
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Art, Satire, Cartoons, Microchip, Computers, Soviet Union, Science
Russia
Obama signs FSMA into Law
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Obama signs FSMA into Law. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency has sought for many years. The FSMA requires the FDA to undertake more than a dozen rulemakings and issue at least 10 guidance documents, as well as a host of reports, plans, strategies, standards, notices, and other tasks. The new law allows for administrative detention based on reason to believe that the food item has been misbranded or adulterated and thus violates a legal standard for the product.
Pete J. Souza
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Executive Office of the President of the United States
January 4 2011
Pete J. Souza
Executive Office of the President of the United States
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act">Wikipedia</a>
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FSMA, Law, Science, Obama, Food Safety
United States
Rudolf Jaenisch
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Rudolf Jaenisch (born 22 April 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animals genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating genetically modified mice to study cancer and neurological diseases.
Sam Ogden
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Whitehead Institute
June 2003
Sam Ogden
Whitehead Institute
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Jaenisch">Wikipedia</a>
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Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Biology, Transgenic Science, Genetic Engineering, Cancer, Diseases
Germany