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  Jacques Monod

  Jacques Lucien Monod (9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis".
  
  Monod (along with François Jacob) is famous for his work on the E. coli lac operon, which encodes proteins necessary for the transport and breakdown of the sugar lactose (lac). From their own work and the work of others, he and Jacob came up with a model for how the levels of some proteins in a cell are controlled. In their model, the manufacture of proteins, such as the ones encoded within the lac (lactose) operon, is prevented when a repressor, encoded by a regulatory gene,

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  Sherwin B. Nuland

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  His NYTimes obit: http://nyti.ms/1kxNtQC

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  Clifton K. Meador

  Cllfton Meador is a retired physician and professor of medicine emeritus at Vanderbilt Medical School. He is author of 13 books. His "Med School" is a year by year humorous and serious account of medical school in the 1950s. "True Medical Detective Stories" tells in detective fashion the story of 19 unusual cases. His latest book, "Fascinomas -fascinating medical mysteries" reports 35 medical mysteries shared by his colleagues from around the country. He has a fascination about the efffects of mind on body,psychosomatic diseases, and Voodoo hexing. The books emphasize the importance of careful listening and engaging the patient in the search for causes of illness.

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  Massimo Polidoro

  Scrittore, giornalista e Segretario nazionale del CICAP, è stato docente di Metodo scientifico e Psicologia dell’insolito all’Università di Milano-Bicocca. Allievo di James Randi, è Fellow del Center for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) e autore di oltre 40 libri e centinaia di articoli pubblicati su "Focus" e numerose altre testate. È all'esordio con il suo primo thriller intitolato: "Il passato è una bestia feroce" (Piemme).

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  Devis Bellucci

  Devis Bellucci (1977) ha conseguito una laurea e un dottorato in fisica all’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, dove oggi è ricercatore in Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali. Si occupa in particolare di biomateriali per ortopedia, odontoiatria e ingegneria dei tessuti.

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