For over 30 years, editors at the Annals of Improbable Research have awarded the Ig Nobel Prizes which are parodies of the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize’
3D Ultrasound: How’s that Work?
It was almost 52 years ago that engineer Godfrey Hounsfield and radiologist James Ambrose carried out the first computed tomography (CT) scans, […]
When the Editors Walked Out
It was 20 years ago when the Public Library of Science (PLOS) – motivated by Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus – launched its […]
Cancer Surgeon to Lead NIH
When CapeRay was still in its infancy at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kit Vaughan and Tania Douglas were […]
MRI for the Little Guy
One of the major breakthroughs in medical science during the last two decades of the 20th century was the introduction of […]
Anatomy of Writing a Book
Twenty years ago, I had the good fortune to spend a sabbatical year in Dublin. After delivering a guest lecture […]
First to File versus First to Invent
Over the past six years, CapeRay has had significant success with the award of key patents in the field of […]
An Extraordinary Biographer
Eleven years ago, I wrote a blog, “In pursuit of the perfect design,” which was in fact a book review. The […]
A Life Well Lived
Earlier this month, the European Society of Radiology announced the passing of Professor Guozhen Li (seen right, © Min.News) who died at the […]
Stanford’s Leader Under Scrutiny
An important tenet of the scientific enterprise is that research published in the peer-reviewed literature is based on integrity and […]