Astrophysicist Marica Branchesi
and uterus transplant surgeon Giuliano Testa are the two
Italians in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in
the world, which was released by the American magazine on
Thursday.
Branchesi was part of the Virgo collaboration that made the
Nobel-prize winning breakthrough of managing to detect
gravitation waves.
In December Nature put her among the 10 top scientific
personalities of 2017.
Branchesi is professor for the Gran Sasso Science Institute
(GSSI) and works at the Gran Sasso laboratory of National
Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).
Surgeon Testa, of the Baylor University Medical Center in
Dallas, is also among Time's 100 most influential people of
2018.
Testa, from Padua, is head of the team that performed the
first uterus transplant in the US, whose recipient gave birth to
a baby boy.
The article describing the importance of the doctor was
written by the woman protagonist of the operation, who ha
remained anonymous.
The child born in 2017 is the second one after one born in
Sweden in 2014 to a woman whose uterus was transplanted.
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