Access Science: Franklin Institute Awards

Founded in 1824, along with the The Franklin Institute, The Franklin Institute's Awards Program has long been recognized as the oldest, and most comprehensive science and technology honor bestowed in the country and around the world. This month the Access Science database profiles the eleven awardees. Spend some time getting to know the latest winners of the Franklin Institute Awards in physics, chemistry, computer, life science and engineering. Each winner's profile includes an informational video biography.

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JoAnne Stubb of MIT, is the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, and has earned this recognition for her work in uncovering the intricate processes by which cells safely use free radicals, for developing new cancer treatments, and for improving the production of environmentally friendly biodegradable polymers. But in what significant, if symbolic, way has Dr. Stubb's work imitated life?

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Access Science: Nobel Prizes & Video

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The 2010 Nobel Prizes
AccessScience celebrates the 2010 Nobel Prizes with special content and articles on this years Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine prize-winners. To learn about this year's prizes winners in Science, visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on Access Science. From the AccessScience homepage select the Biographies tab to view the Nobel Prize information.


Video Biographies
AccessScience and the Franklin Institute team up to present an ongoing series of informative video biographies on groundbreaking scientists. To access this resource visit Access Science from our Articles and Databases website, then select the Multimedia tab and then the Video Biographies tab.

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A tiny source of hope for the Gulf region?
Could a new microbe be helping to contain the spread of millions of gallons of oil from BP's disastrous Deepwater Horizon spill? Scientists discovered the microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf following the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Learn more about petroleum microbiology and how these hydrocarbon-hungry microorganisms are already aiding in the cleanup of oil spills.

Anolis lizards illuminate island biodiversity as more than 100 species now inhabit the Caribbean islands. Some thought they tiptoed slowly into such diversity, but it turns out they evolved rapidly, taking the region by storm.

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The recent earthquake in Haiti has brought renewed interest in the science of earthquakes. AccessScience has compiled a selection of articles and multimedia on the subject. Listen to seismologist Kaye Shedlock of NSF, see pictures of EarthScape — NSF's observatory system of the Earth's movements, and watch videos and animations.

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AccessScience 2.0 includes searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. This online science platform provides over 8,500 online articles, more than 110,000 definitions of scientific and technical terms, biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, illustrations and graphics and the latest news in science and technology.

One of the featured articles in AccessScience this month is Accelerating universe, by Robert P. Kirshner, Professor, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It explains how astronomers used evidence from exploding stars to show that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down, as would be expected from the pull of gravity on matter in the universe, but is instead speeding up. Learn about the history of this understanding, and how type 1a supernovae are used as "standard candles" to track expansion.

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Access Science - Online Science Information

Take an online visit to Access Science and view their new redesign of their science information website. Access Science includes the 10th Edition of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and other online science reference resources like: the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology; the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms and the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

AccessScience also includes late-breaking science and technology news, RSS feeds, flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos and more. Let AccessScience help you keep up to date in all the major areas of science and technology.

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