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Dorothy Hamre, the original discoverer of the coronavirus (Call number for the photograph is NAU.PH.93.37.987).

Putting a face to Dorothy Hamre, the experimental scientist who discovered the coronavirus

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Discoverer of coronavirus

Dorothy Hamre at the University of Chicago’s Department of Medicine discovered the coronavirus in the 1960s, but her role in this regard seems all but
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Memories of a Bangalore quartet

Satish Dhawan, Sivaraj Ramaseshan, G.N. Ramachandran, and H. Narasimhaiah dominated the scientific landscape of Bengaluru between 1970 and 1990 as co
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Science watcher and entrepreneur

Eugene Garfield (1925-2017), who is regarded as the founder of the field of scientometrics, developed the Science Citation Index and a journal-ranking
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