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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Tikvah Alper.jpg|thumb]]<br /> 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.<br /> ==Radiobiologist==<br /> She later became a distinguished [[radiobiology|radiobiologist]]. <br /> ==Discoveries==<br /> 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]].<br /> ==Prion diseases==<br /> Her discovery that scrapie does not contain nucleic acid was instrumental in understanding the development of the [[Prion theory]]. <br /> ==Director of the MRC==<br /> She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, [[Hammersmith Hospital]], [[London]], [[UK]], 1962-1974. <br /> ==Marriage with Max Sterne==<br /> She married Max Sterne but did not adopt his name.<br /> {{stb}}<br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Alper, Tikvah}}<br /> [[Category:1909 births]]<br /> [[Category:1995 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Radiobiologists]]<br /> [[Category:Women radiobiologists]]<br /> [[Category:South African women scientists]]<br /> [[Category:British women biologists]]<br /> [[Category:South African Jews]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century South African physicists]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century British women scientists]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century British biologists]]<br /> [[Category:People from Cape Town]]<br /> [[Category:University of Cape Town alumni]]<br /> [[Category:Alumni of Durban Girls&#039; High School]]<br /> [[Category:South African people of Russian-Jewish descent]]<br /> [[Category:South African emigrants to the United Kingdom]]</div>

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