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Jan 22, 1909 South Africa Died on 02 Feb 1995 (aged 86)
radiobiologist
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About Tikvah Alper
- Tikvah Alper (22 January 1909 – 2 February 1995) trained as a physicist and became a distinguished radiobiologist.
- 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.
- She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, 1962–1974. She married Max Sterne but never adopted his name.
