Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2016. This year there's a total solar eclipse on March 9th (visible from Indonesia) and an annular on September 1st (central Africa). But the terrific tetrad of total lunar eclipses is over â we'll see just two barely-there penumbral eclipses in 2016, on March 23rd and September 16th.
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
Among Dr Pattisonâs awards are: Institute of Religion and Medicine Essay Prize (1978); Major State Studentship (1979â1982); elected to International Academy of Practical Theology (1992); and his Gifford lectureship at the University of Aberdeen (2007).