10 Big Scientific Characters Of 2023: An artificial intelligence pioneer, an endangered species conservationist, the world's first "global heat officer" and a malaria cure discoverer are the protagonists of some of this year's big science stories, which have been named by scientific journals as ' Included in Nature's "Nature's 10" list. "Nature's 10" explores major advances in science over the past year and some of the people who helped make surprising discoveries and bring attention to important problems. This is not an award or ranking. Rather, it is a selection compiled by the editors of Nature to highlight the most significant scientific advances of the year.
Thomas Powles: Cancer Explorer Thomas Powles has been a Professor of Urological Cancer at the University of London since 2012 and Director of the Barts Cancer Centre. Thomas trained as an oncologist while his MD thesis at the University of London was on mechanisms of resistance to systemic therapy in urological cancers. He led a clinical trial for the treatment of bladder cancer.
Halido Tinto: Malaria fighter Halido Tinto hails from the African country of Ivory Coast. He received his higher education from the School of Medicine of the University of Mali. After graduation, he moved to Denmark, where he studied at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy. Worked on the development of new anti-malarial drugs. Thanks to this researcher's hard work, another vaccine for deadly epidemics like malaria will soon be released. got He discovered glucagon-like "peptide 1" and elucidated its role in glucose metabolism and insulin secretion. Its breakthroughs were turned into treatments for diabetes and obesity by Novo Nordisk.
Kalpana Kalahasti: Voyage to the Moon The engineer and manager was instrumental in ensuring the successful touchdown of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon, giving India It became the fourth country to achieve this feat.
James Hamlin: Superconductivity Sleuth introduces himself as follows: “My laboratory's efforts are in using a combination of materials synthesis, characterization, and high-pressure measurements to develop novel and potentially but to advance our understanding of useful electronic and magnetic materials.”This physicist helped point out the flaws in the sensational claims of extreme superconductivity at room temperature. Hayashi is a professor in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Kyushu University.
In 2004, he received his PhD from Tokyo University of Science and joined Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital. Their breakthrough in creating viable eggs from the cells of male rats could help save the endangered species. helped rebuild what had been undermined by the previous government there.
Eleni Mariveli: Warming Warden As the United Nations' chief heat officer, this former politician is helping the world deal with the dangers of climate change.
Elia Satskever: AI Visionary Pioneer of "ChatGPT" and other "AI systems" that are changing society. He was born in Russia, educated in Israel and Canada. Bachelors in Mathematics in 2005 and Masters in Computer Science in 2007 from the University of Toronto. PhD in 2013. He was supervised by Jeffrey Hinton, himself a renowned computer scientist and known for his work in artificial neural networks in the Ph.D. Elia Satskever is a founding member of the well-known artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, founded in 2015.
Annie Kircher: Fusion Igniter is an American nuclear engineer and physicist who works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The physicist helped create nuclear reactions at the US National Ignition Facility that were once seen only in hydrogen bombs and stars.