- Title
- Tebello Nyokong 'As chemists, we are designers'
- Creator
- Nolan, Cathy
- Subject
- Nyokong, Tebello
- Subject
- L’Oreal–UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Article
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- vital:7183
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006272
- Identifier
- Nyokong, Tebello
- Identifier
- L’Oreal–UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
- Description
- What is the common thread running through denim jeans, cancer and pesticides? None springs to mind, yet when chemist Tebello Nyokong describes her fascinating research, a link begins to emerge: light. A specialist in nanochemistry, Nyokong is using laser in ways that could revolutionize not only the diagnosis and treatment of cancer but also water purification. Born in Lesotho, Tebello Nyokong is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology at Rhodes University in South Africa and Director of the Nanotechnology Innovation Centre for Sensors (Mintek). In 2009, she was one of the five Laureates of the 2009 L’Oreal–UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.
- Format
- Format
- 2 pages
- Publisher
- A World of Science
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nyokong, Tebello (2011) Interview: Tebello Nyokong 'As chemists, we are designers' A World of Science, Vol. 9, No. 4, October–December 2011
- Relation
- A variant of this interview was published in the January 2011 issue of the UNESCO Courier on the theme of Chemistry and Life: www.unesco.org/courier
- Rights
- A World of Science
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