Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings South African Alumni Narratives © Academy of Science of South Africa August 2020
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Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings South African Alumni Narratives © Academy of Science of South Africa August 2020 ISBN 978-1-928496-28-1 Cite: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2020). DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0063 Published by: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) PO Box 72135, Lynnwood Ridge, Pretoria, South Africa, 0040 Tel: +27 12 349 6600 • Fax: +27 86 576 9520 E-mail: [email protected] Reproduction is permitted, provided the source and publisher are appropriately acknowledged. The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) was inaugurated in May 1996. It was formed in response to the need for an Academy of Science consonant with the dawn of democracy in South Africa: activist in its mission of using science and scholarship for the benefit of society, with a mandate encompassing all scholarly disciplines that use an open-minded and evidence-based approach to build knowledge. ASSAf thus adopted in its name the term ‘science’ in the singular as reflecting a common way of enquiring rather than an aggregation of different disciplines. Its Members are elected on the basis of a combination of two principal criteria, academic excellence and significant contributions to society. The Parliament of South Africa passed the Academy of Science of South Africa Act (No 67 of 2001), which came into force on 15 May 2002. This made ASSAf the only academy of science in South Africa officially recognised by government and representing the country in the international community of science academies and elsewhere. Views expressed are those of the individuals and not necessarily those of the Academy nor a consensus view of the Academy based on an in-depth evidence-based study. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................................................................... v Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................................... vi South African Alumni Narratives 2019 Danielle Douglas-Henry ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Francis Otieno ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Genevéve Marx ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 Hester Schutte ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Itumeleng Monageng .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Jake Gordin ...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Jan Louw ........................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Johannes Thiersen ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Julia Healey ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Justin Harrison ................................................................................................................................................................ 19 Katekani Shingange ....................................................................................................................................................... 21 Kimeel Sooknunan ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 Michael Sarkis.................................................................................................................................................................. 25 Nicole Thomas ................................................................................................................................................................ 27 Sinenhlanhla Sikhosana ................................................................................................................................................ 29 Tanita Ramburuth-Hurt ................................................................................................................................................ 31 Tariq Blecher ................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Thandi Gumede .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 Valentine Saasa ............................................................................................................................................................... 36 2018 Bianca Brider Verlinden ................................................................................................................................................ 38 Blessing Osemengbe Ahianti ....................................................................................................................................... 40 Edith Phalane .................................................................................................................................................................. 42 Eileen Thomas ................................................................................................................................................................. 44 Shireen Mentor ............................................................................................................................................................... 45 Zimkhitha Soji .................................................................................................................................................................. 47 2017 Frederick Malan .............................................................................................................................................................. 49 Funeka Nkosi ................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Hlamulo Makelane ......................................................................................................................................................... 53 Mark Williams-Wynn ...................................................................................................................................................... 55 Retha Peach ..................................................................................................................................................................... 57 Rozanne Bester............................................................................................................................................................... 59 iii 2016 Adriana Marais ................................................................................................................................................................ 61 Gregory Jackson .............................................................................................................................................................. 63 Nicholas Eugene Engelbrecht ..................................................................................................................................... 65 Sphumelele Ndlovu........................................................................................................................................................ 66 2015 Agnes Pholosi .................................................................................................................................................................. 68 Deveshnie Mudaly .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 Kenda Knowles ................................................................................................................................................................ 72 Melinda Barkhuizen ....................................................................................................................................................... 74 Osmond Mlonyeni .......................................................................................................................................................... 76 Thifhelimbilu Bucher ..................................................................................................................................................... 78 2014 Alberto Behar .................................................................................................................................................................