Task 1 (Scientist)

MODERN SCIENTIST


NAME: David James

POB: AUSTRALIA, Sydney

DOB: 1958


CONTRIBUTION: discovered the glucose transporter GLUT4. He has also been responsible for the molecular dissection of the intracellular trafficking pathways that regulate GLUT4 translocation to the cell surface, the topological mapping of the insulin signal transduction pathway, the creation of a method for studying in vivo metabolism in small animals, and the use of this method to gain insights into whole-animal fuel metabolism and homeostasis.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_James_(cell_biologist)

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His early investigations into the insect world led his interest in population ecology. He went to explore the inter-reaction of humanity with the environment, studying genetics at Chicago Universtiy then Oxford. As Challis Professor of Biology at Sydney University, he Helped lay the foundations for the new science of ecology. His search for a philosophy that could embrace both science and God culminated in what he calls "an ecological model of God".


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Name : Tim Flannery

POB : Australia

DOB : 28 January 1956

Contribution:


Mammalogist

Through the 1990s, Flannery surveyed the mammals of Melanesia – discovering 16 new species – and took a leading role in conservation efforts in the region.

The specific name of the Greater Monkey-faced Bat (Pteralopex flanneryi), only described in 2005, honours Tim Flannery.

Flannery's work prompted Sir David Attenborough to describe him as being "in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr. David Livingstone".


Palaeontologist

In 1980, Flannery discovered dinosaur fossils on the southern coast of Victoria and in 1985 had a role in the groundbreaking discovery of Cretaceous mammal fossils in Australia. This latter find extended the Australian mammal fossil record back 80 million years. During the 1980s, Flannery described most of the known Pleistocene megafaunal species in New Guinea as well as the fossil record of the phalangerids, a family of possums.
 
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