Nobel, Cousteau and Campbell

"... he devoted much time to improving his product. He conceived the idea of mixing it [nitroglycerine] with a porous clay known as kieselguhr. Thus was born dynamite, in 1867, with a far superior safety record: sales rose dramatically. A still better product, blasting gelatine, was introduced in 1875."



"By inviting a wide range of scientists - geologists, marine biologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists and biochemists - on board the Calypso, one might even venture that he invented marine field ecology, enabling a cross-fertilization of ideas, approaches and findings."



"Wilmut and Campbell would like to put us straight about why they cloned Dolly and what she means to the rest of us ... one of the interests of the Government-funded institute and its biotech partner PPL is in developing genetically-modified farm animals that can produce therapeutic human proteins, such as Factors VIII and IX for haemophilics, in their milk."

resources:

Trevor I. Williams, 1996 “Alfred Nobel (1833-1896): the man and his prizes”, Endeavour, Volume 20, Issue 3, pp 95-96.

Roger Cans “Obituary: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-97)” Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, Volume 388 Number 6640 pp309-404.

Georgina Ferry, 2000 “Well hello Dolly, the Second Creation by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge (Headline, pounds 18.99), The Daily Mail, 2 January 2000.