Tikvah Alper
Tikvah Alper (22 January 1909 - 2 February 1995) is a South African scientist who was trained as a physicist who later settled in Great Brittain.
Radiobiologist[edit | edit source]
She later became a distinguished radiobiologist.
Discoveries[edit | edit source]
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.
Prion diseases[edit | edit source]
Her discovery that scrapie does not contain nucleic acid was instrumental in understanding the development of the Prion theory.
Director of the MRC[edit | edit source]
She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, 1962-1974.
Marriage with Max Sterne[edit | edit source]
She married Max Sterne but did not adopt his name.
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- 1909 births
- 1995 deaths
- Radiobiologists
- Women radiobiologists
- South African women scientists
- British women biologists
- South African Jews
- 20th-century South African physicists
- 20th-century British women scientists
- 20th-century British biologists
- People from Cape Town
- University of Cape Town alumni
- Alumni of Durban Girls' High School
- South African people of Russian-Jewish descent
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