The Academy of Science of South Africa has inducted 32 members, taking its membership to 426. The new members, announced on 5 November, contains some famous names.
Probably the most widely-known name on the list is Lee Berger, the paleoanthropologist famous for discovering remains of Australopithecus sediba, a human ancestor, near Johannesburg.
The list also includes stellar international researchers who recently moved to South Africa, such as William Bishai, the American director of the recently established KwaZulu-Natla Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV in Durban.
This article on Research Professional News is only available to Research Professional or Pivot-RP users.
Research Professional users can log in and view the article via this link
Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link.