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Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist [2] and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. [3] Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another, a fundamental discovery for genetical engineering.
Marie Boyer. Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (née Wombwell; 14 April 1876 – 28 May 1969), [1] was the wife of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and châtelaine of Highclere Castle in Hampshire. [2] After her second marriage, she became Mrs Almina Dennistoun, although she called herself Almina Carnarvon. [3]
The company was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Herbert Boyer. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Boyer is considered to be a pioneer in the field of recombinant DNA technology. In 1973, Boyer and his colleague Stanley Norman Cohen demonstrated that restriction enzymes could be used as "scissors" to cut DNA fragments of ...
The book could also be considered to have launched the science fiction subgenre depicting intelligent social insects, in some cases a non-human species such as the space-traveling Shaara "bees" in the future universe of A. Bertram Chandler, in others (such as Frank Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive) humans who evolved or consciously engineered their ...
History. The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), [3] during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. [4] It influenced several authors and economists, such as Karl Marx, as well as governments and ...
Andrew Carnegie (English: / kɑːrˈnɛɡi / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [ 2 ][ 3 ][ note 1 ] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Adam Smith FRS FRSE FRSA (baptised 16 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1723 [ 1 ] – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish [ a ] economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. [ 3 ] Seen by some as "The Father of Economics" [ 4 ] or "The Father of Capitalism", [ 5 ] he wrote two ...
Sociological positivism. Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (French: [oɡyst kɔ̃t] ⓘ; 19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) [1] was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. [2]