February 20, 2012

Renato Dulbecco in 1966

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Italian biologist, doctor and geneticist Renato Dulbecco died of a heart attack. With Howard Termin and David Baltimore in 1975 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

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A group of physicists at the Australian University of New South Wales in Sydney and the American University of Purdue in Indiana created a transistor operating as a single phosphorus atom positioned precisely on a silicon crystal.