Featured Scientists in 1996: Note:
interviews for this year are in image form. Some images are large
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Philippa Marrack Targets T Cells and
Autoimmune Disease
*January/FebruarAn Interview from Science Watch®y 1996
Because of their role in helping humans and other
vertebrates to recognize and fight off invading organisms, T cells play ...
Harvard's
Tony Evans Gets Tough with Ceramic Composites
*March/April 1996
In the world of materials, those known as ceramics are
as close as one might get to functional perfection. They can , ...
UNIAID's
Anthony S. Fauci on 15 Years of AIDS Research
*May/June 1996
Even before the AIDS epidemic, Anthony S. Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ...
Univ. of
Sheffield's Philip Grime on Plant Ecology
*July/August 1996
Formulating generalizations in ecology is particularly
difficult, not only because of the complexity of the natural world but also ...
Yale's
Arthur Horwich on Protein Chaperones
*September/October 1996
For 30 years the fundamental tenet of protein chemistry
has been "one sequence, one structure." A protein is ...
Steven Weinberg on the Ultimate Field Theory
*November/December 1996
For a short while in the mid-20th century it seemed
that physics might be able to reduce nature to a handful of fundamental ...
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