Tikvah Alper

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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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