Tag: Rao Uppu
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Who owns a Nobel Prize? Honor, property, and ethics
Rao UppuBaton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Every scientist harbors a quiet dream—whether openly admitted or privately held—of winning a Nobel Prize. Early in my career, I naïvely asked my late mentor, Professor William A. Pryor, a leading figure in free-radical research whose work helped shape modern oxidative biology, why he had never received one. His…
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A second mind in scientific writing
Rao UppuBaton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Clarity in scientific writing is a rare achievement. As Margaret Thatcher would have said in a different context, it does not fall from Heaven but needs work, often a lot of it. I learned this years ago, not in a laboratory or a seminar, but in my living room,…