Tikvah Alper
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.
Radiobiologist
She later became a distinguished radiobiologist.
Discoveries
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.
Prion diseases
Her discovery that scrapie does not contain nucleic acid was instrumental in understanding the development of the Prion theory.
Director of the MRC
She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, 1962-1974.
Marriage with Max Sterne
She married Max Sterne but did not adopt his name.
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