Professor Ed Gane, it turned out, is credited with finding a cure for Hepatitis C, a life-threatening disease suffered by millions of people worldwide. The World Health Organisation has reported more than a million people have been cured and it believes Hepatitis C could be eradicated within 30 years. Beat that, New Zealand scientists could say to every other category of national achievement. How many of us could name one New Zealand scientist besides Sir Ernest Rutherford? Scientists who advance any frontier of knowledge are our true superstars.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 06, 2017 17:26 UTC