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Volume 4, Issue 11, May 2013

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Edward Anthony Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823), 264th Birthday
The father of immunology & the pioneer of smallpox vaccine
Edward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Jenner is widely credited as the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and is sometimes referred to as the 'Father of Immunology'. He was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire on 18 May 1749. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon and then trained in London. In 1772, he returned to Berkeley and spent most the rest of his career as a doctor in his native town. In 1796, he carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old James Phipps. Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. He was testing his theory, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of cowpox never contracted smallpox, one of the greatest killers of the period, particularly among children. Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a paper to the Royal Society in 1797 describing his experiment, but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that he needed more proof. Undaunted, Jenner experimented on several other children, including his own 11-month-old son.

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DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH

Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the island of Saint Helena - May 21, 1502

Brindha V

St. Helena is well known as Napoleon's second and final island exile, but the rich and fascinating history of the island goes back to its discovery in 1502 by the Portuguese navigator, Joao da Nova. He named the unknown and uninhabited island in honor of Saint Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, since it was on her feast day that the island had been discovered.

Discovery, 2013, 4(11), 27-28

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COMMUNICATION

Alfred Werner, initiator of modern inorganic stereo chemistry- A tribute in the occasion of 100th year of receiving the Nobel Prize by the great chemist

Abhisek Saha

Alfred Werner was born on December 12, 1866, at Mülhausen in Alsace. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Werner's name will always be coupled with the theory of coordination which he established and also with his work on the spatial orientations of atoms in the inorganic molecule, the work he did, when he was only 24.

Discovery, 2013, 4(11), 29-31

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ANALYSIS

Study on utilization of Jackfruit seed flour and de-fatted soy flour mix in preparation of breakfast cereal by twin-screw extrusion technology

Priyadarshini Chakraborty, Bhattacharyya DK, Bandyopadhyay NR, Ghosh M

The work aims at developing nutritionally enriched breakfast cereal by utilizing the jackfruit seed flour, and defatted soy flour, by Twin-screw Extrusion technology. Jackfruit seed flour and defatted soy flour are used as major sources of raw materials in four different set of compositions and are subjected to extrusion to prepare nutritious extruded breakfast cereals. Other ingredients used are milk powder (Amul), sugar powder, cocoa powder (WeiKFiELD) and Salt (Iodised Tata salt). The products showed better nutrient composition in terms of Protein, Carbohydrate, Minerals and Fiber.

Discovery, 2013, 4(11), 32-37

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Scientometric analysis of the performing arts and arts community research productivity

Amsaveni N, Kalisdha A, Subbiah M

The aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of performing arts and arts community on the world’s research output from various countries of the world. The present study assessed benchmarking of research output for the period between 1999 and 2013 (April) 12408 records were downloaded from the database of web of Science and evaluated using HistCite software.

Discovery, 2013, 4(11), 38-41

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RESEARCH

A Productivity Study of Indian Music Using Scientometric Techniques

Surulinathi M, Kalisdha A, Subbiah M

This article presents a citation-based mapping such as citation map of data on global scientific activities in the field of Indian Music research using Web of Science Databases. Using different scientometric approaches, a continuous increase of both quantitative and qualitative parameters such as Global and Local Citation Scores.

Discovery, 2013, 4(11), 42-47

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