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Tikvah Alper
Tikvah Alper (1909–1995) trained as a physicist and became a distinguished radiobiologist.〔Hunter, A. (2012) Radiation biology – An important science. ''South African Journal of Science''; 108 (7/8) ()〕 Among many other initiatives and discoveries, she showed that the infectious agent in Scrapie did not contain nucleic acid: a finding that was important in understanding the mechanisms of all forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy〔Highfield, Roger, ("The End of BSE" ). ''The Telegram''. 11 February 2011〕 She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, 1962–1974.
== Early life and career ==
Tikvah Alper was born in South Africa, the youngest of four daughters in a poor Jewish immigrant family. As a schoolgirl at Durban Girls' High School, she was described as "the most intellectually distinguished girl ever to attend the school",〔Hornsey, S; Denekamp, J. (1997) "Tikvah Alper: An indomitable Spirit". ''International Journal of Radiation Biology'' (71:6) 631–42〕 and matriculated with distinction a year early. She graduated with distinction in physics from University of Cape Town in 1929, and then studied in Berlin with the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner in 1930–32, publishing a prize-winning〔 paper on delta rays produced by alpha particles in 1933.〔
Alper, T. (1932) Über die δ-Strahlen und die Beziehung zwischen Reichweite und Geschwindigkeit für langsame Elektronen Zeitschrift für Physik (76:3–4) 172–189 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01341810?LI=true〕 In 1932, she returned to South Africa to marry the (later) renowned bacteriologist Max Sterne,〔(Obituary of Max Sterne )〕 the inventor of the most effective livestock vaccine for anthrax. Because married women were not then permitted to work at University, Tikvah and Max established a home laboratory where they worked together. Their sons, Jonathan and Michael, were born in 1935 and 1936. From then on, Tikvah Alper combined demands of motherhood (Jonathan was born profoundly deaf), marriage and career. These included pre- and post-war spells in England, where she worked with the pioneer radiobiologist, Douglas Lea.〔(Lecture by Douglas Lea )〕 Over ten years from 1937, Tikvah retrained and then also worked as a teacher of the deaf. Her physics training and technical skills were evident in her published research on making speech articulation visible, for use in speech training for deaf children〔Alper, T., Zimmerman, H. J. (1939) A thyraton inflexion indicator for teaching the deaf. ''J. of Scientific Instruments'', 16, 334–6〕 She became head of the Biophysics section of the South African National Physics Laboratory in 1948.
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