Renato Dulbecco, along with David Baltimore and Howard Temin, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for his work in virology. He was an early advocate of sequencing the human genome.
Walter Gilbert is a Nobel Laureate. He received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sequencing DNA. He also joined the race to sequence the insulin gene and was one of the early leaders in the biotechnology industry.
Introduction to Astronomy (“IntroAstro”) was an eight week massive open online course (MOOC) developed and delivered by Dr. Ronen Plesser on the Coursera platform from mid-November 2012 through mid-February 2013. This ...
Original pen used by James B. Duke to sign the Indenture to the Duke Endowment mounted on a bronze plaque that includes a facsimile of Duke's signature