These rocks enriched the ground beneath them with exotic minerals.Thirty-three yeafterftheirheir Nördlingen adventure, the Shoemakers watched as one of this scientific couple's latest co-discoveries, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, smashed into Jupiter in 20 consecutive fragments, scarring the vast planet with blotches thousands of miles across.
He is noted for his co-discovery of the p53 gene that plays a critical role in more than half of all cancers.
The scientist has perhaps become best known as "the woman who was not awarded the Nobel prize for the co-discovery of the structure of DNA".
He's on a distinguished committee: another member is Jim Watson, the American who won a Nobel Prize for his co- discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
He was best known for his co-discovery of MSX, the parasite that nearly wiped out the once lucrative Delaware Bay oyster beds, and for breeding a strain of oysters resistant to it.
As perhaps you know, Dr. James Thomson, one of the pioneers of embryonic stem cell research, hoped that his co-discovery of the induced pluripotent stem cell method might end the debate.
She was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the co-discovery of H.I.V. Adeeba Kamarulzaman is the director of the Center of Excellence for Research in AIDS and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.
Paul C. Zamecnik, a molecular biologist whose determination to unlock the secrets of how a protein is made led to his co-discovery of transfer RNA, a molecule that is essential to the process, died on Oct. 27 at his home in Boston.
He was an adviser in the postdoctoral studies of Al Chakrabarty, who later bioengineered the first oil-eating microbes, and in the doctoral studies of James D. Watson, who later shared a Nobel Prize for his co-discovery of the DNA double helix.
A clinical rheumatologist and researcher at New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Co lumbia University Medical Center for more than 45 years, she helped lead numerous scientific advances, including co-discovery of the genetic basis for familial primary pulmonary hypertension -a breakthrough that has opened new avenues for treating the disease.
So his co-discovery of evidence supporting the case for a new ninth planet may go some way towards redeeming him in the eyes of those who, until 20 January, tended to view him as some sort of cosmic kill-joy who murdered the smallest, cutest member of the famous gang-of-nine.
