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Tikvah Alper

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Tikvah Alper · Science & Medicine

What

South African radiobiologist Tikvah Alper, who spent a lifetime questioning accepted theories and the established order, discovered that diseases like scrapie and mad cow replicated without DNA, challenging our modern understanding of disease.

When

22 January 1909

Biography

Tikvah Alper is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — South African radiobiologist Tikvah Alper, who spent a lifetime questioning accepted theories and the established order, discovered that diseases like scrapie and mad cow replicated without DNA, challenging our modern understanding of disease.

How & why

South African radiobiologist Tikvah Alper, who spent a lifetime questioning accepted theories and the established order, discovered that diseases like scrapie and mad cow replicated without DNA, challenging our modern understanding of disease. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Annette B. Vogt, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annette B. Vogt

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South African radiobiologist Tikvah Alper, who spent a lifetime questioning accepted theories and the established order, discovered that diseases like scrapie and mad cow replicated without DNA, challenging our modern understanding of disease.

1909

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annette B. Vogt