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Faculty of 1000 announces the winners of the Associate Faculty Member Travel Grants 2011

6th Mar 2012

In 2011, Faculty of 1000 (F1000) established a Travel Grant Fund to recognize the contribution of its Associate Faculty Members to the service.

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Faculty of 1000's 'Faculty Member of the Year 2011' Awards

23rd Feb 2012

Faculty of 1000 announces the first in a series of awards marking the achievements of its Faculty members.

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Italian biologist Renato Dulbecco has died at his home in California aged 97. Watch the video interview of his incredible life story at Web of Stories.

21st Feb 2012

Italian biologist Renato Dulbecco has died at his home in California aged 97. Joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1975 for furthering the understanding of cancer caused by viruses, Dulbecco had also created a vaccine using a mutant form of the polio virus and had…

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New Faculty Of 1000 Application Identifies The Best Research In Biology And Medicine Covered In Elsevier's SciVerse

16th Feb 2012

Faculty of 1000 (F1000), an online service that selects and evaluates articles based on the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine, today announced the launch of a new application that helps researchers explore the scientific content in biology and medicine included in Elsevier’s SciVerse platform.

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John Maynard Smith, renowned environmental biologist and geneticist, share his views on the creation of Dolly the Sheep

13th Feb 2012

Dolly the Sheep made headlines around the world when news broke that the first mammal had been successfully cloned. To mark the anniversary of her death on 14 February 2003, watch the late John Maynard Smith, renowned environmental biologist and geneticist, share his views on her creation and reflect on…

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Ernst Mayr talks to Web of Stories about the famous evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin

10th Feb 2012

To celebrate the birthday of the most famous biologist in history, Charles Darwin, on 12 February, visit the Web of Stories video recordings of the award-winning evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr who shares his thoughts on Darwin’s remarkable, world-changing theories.

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Faculty of 1000 introduces a novel Open Access publishing venture: F1000 Research

31st Jan 2012

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) today announces F1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine that will launch later this year. It is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing today: timely dissemination of research, peer review, and sharing of data.

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On 31 January 1950 President Truman gave the order to create the hydrogen bomb. To mark the anniversary of this event, listen to physicist Edward Teller sharing, in his own words, the fascinating story of his part in its creation, which changed the world

30th Jan 2012

Edward Teller, the late Hungarian-American physicist, is famous for having helped to develop the atomic bomb and providing the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb. His long and, at times, controversial career spanned decades, leaving behind him a legacy, including contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics,…

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On Tuesday 10th January, Donald Ervin Knuth, the American computing pioneer and author of the classic The Art of Computer Programming, celebrates his 74th birthday.

9th Jan 2012

Four years ago, Knuth set aside a couple of days to record, in great depth, the story of his life and work for posterity. You can watch the recording in its entirety, free of charge, at http://webofstories.com, a huge online archive of video stories told by many of the most creative…

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Author of 'Chemistry of the Elements', Emeritus Professor Norman Greenwood shares his video life story with Web of Stories

30th Nov 2011

Greenwood and Earnshaw’s Chemistry of the Elements has today been translated into several European and Asian languages, and is widely regarded around the world as being one of the most influential chemistry bibles of our time. Web of Stories is delighted to share Professor Norman Greenwood’s video life story from…

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