The journal Nature said the mission of the European probe Rosetta as one of the 10 scientific achievements most notable of 2014, including developments also appear in Artificial Intelligence and medical battle Ebola and cancer .
The Italian Andrea Accomazzo, flight director ship of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose module landed on 12 November in the comet 67P / Churyamov-Gerasimenko , has won a place among the ten scientists most important of the year after nearly two decades preparing to trav el from Rosetta.
“It was like going to a peak of 8000 meters and return alive. You have to train a lot, it’s something that takes many years,” Accomazzo, one of the leaders of a mission, which has identified said the water Comets is different from Earth’s oceans.
The Indian Radhinka Nagpal also ranks high on the list of the prestigious British magazine for developing swarms inspired by insect communities robots instead.
Together with his group at Harvard University in the US, Nagpal has created a group of 24 thousand robots that coordinate with each other as do the ants, termites and bees.
As for the fight against Ebola, a disease that has killed more than 6,000 people in its last outbreak in West Africa, Nature figure underlines the researcher Sierra Leone Humarr Khan, part of team that deve loped the first studies of the genetic sequence of the virus .
Khan died July 29 after catching the disease himself working in the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, where he conducted studies that shed light on the mutations of the virus.
Nature also falls among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year Pete Frates initiative to draw attention to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which has raised 115 million dollars (92 million euros ).
His campaign, known as the “challenge bucket of ice water” flooded social networks with over 17 million videos, including those recorded computer mogul Bill Gates, the former US President George W. Bush and the three sons of physicist Stephen Hawking, ALS patient himself.
The astrophysicist American David Spergel is in the top ten scie ntific achievements of 2014 after having discovered an error in the data of the team that announced in March that it had first detected the presence of gravitational waves, a of the physical consequences of the theory of general relativity Albert Einstein .
Spergel found that measurements of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts (USA) with BICEP2 telescope installed at the South Pole, had not taken into account the distortion produced by the cosmic dust.
Following Spergel skepticism regarding the discovery, the scientific community began to shuffle the nomination of the Harvard-Smithsonian team Nobel Prize discuss the problems arising from scientific discoveries announced too early.
The Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics since the inception of this award in 1936, also appears prominently in the list of Nature , like the Japanese Masayo Takahashi for his research pioneer in stem cells.
Kipillil Radhakrishnan is the most visible face of the Mars mission of Indian probe Mangalyaan, a milestone that had not achieved any Asian country so far.
The American oncologist Suzanne Topalian known for developing anti-cancer immune therapy, while Sjors Scheres, the British University of Cambridge, appears among scientists of the year by advancing a microscopy technique to detect electrons more effectively and observe proteins with an unprecedented resolution.
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