The journal Nature said on Wednesday the mission of the European probe Rosetta as one of the ten most remarkable scientific achievements of 2014, including developments also appear in artificial intelligence and medical battle against Ebola and cancer.
The Italian Andrea Accomazzo, flight director ship of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose module landed on November 12 at 67P / CG comet has conquered one place among the ten most important scientists of the year after nearly two decades preparing to travel from Rosetta.
“It was like going to a peak of 8.000 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 established that the water in comets is different from Earth’s oceans said.
The Indian Radhinka Nagpal also ranks high on the list of the prestigious British magazine for developing swarms of robots inspired insect communities in place.
Along with his group at the American University of Harvard, Nagpal has created a group of 1,024 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 latest outbreak in West Africa, Nature figure underlines the researcher Sierra Leone Humarr Khan, part of the team that developed the first studies of the genetic sequence of the virus.
Khan died on July 29 after getting himself of the disease working in the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, where he conducted studies that shed light on the mutations of the virus.
Nature also fits in the top ten scientific breakthroughs of the year Pete Frates initiative to draw attention to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which has raised $ 115 million (about 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 American astrophysicist David Spergel is in the top ten scientific achievements of 2014 after having discovered an error in the data the team announced in March it was first detected the presence of gravitational waves, one of the physical consequences of the theory of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
Spergel found that measurements of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Massachusetts (USA) with BICEP2 telescope installed at the South Pole, had not taken into account the distortion produced by the cosmic dust.
Following the Spergel skepticism regarding the discovery, the scientific community began shuffling 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 the award in 1936, also appears prominently in the list of Nature , like the Japanese Masayo Takahashi for his pioneering research into 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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