not sure if this is a mutation or some kind of disease, but this whole patch of clover has these symmetric brown spots on the leaves that look like hearts
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![Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar.[9][10] This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, though she was not among its recipients.[11]
Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011. She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to use the $3 million (£2.3 million) prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students to become research physicists. The fund is administered by the Institute of Physics.[12][13][14][15]
In 2021, Bell Burnell became the second female recipient (after Dorothy Hodgkin in 1976) of the Copley Medal.[16] In 2025, Bell Burnell's image was included on an An Post stamp celebrating women in STEM.[17]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreig5bcle3vhpite6cjwpjxbbsp5fmltfrgondblfdzle4c765wk6yq)
![Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920 – 17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic who discovered streptomycin,[1] the first antibiotic known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis.[2] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in soil microbiology, and received his doctorate from Rutgers in 1945. His PhD research led directly to the discovery of streptomycin.
Born to a family of farmers, Schatz was inspired to study soil science for its potential applicability to take up his family occupation. Topping his class at Rutgers in 1942, he immediately worked under Selman Waksman, then head of the Department of Soil Microbiology, but was drafted to the US Army to serve in the World War II. After a back injury led to his discharge from the army, he rejoined Waksman in 1943 as a PhD student. Working in isolation from others due to his use of the dreaded tuberculosis bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), he discovered a new antibiotic which he named "streptomycin" that was proven safe and effective against the tuberculosis bacterium and other bacteria. He also contributed to the discovery another antibiotic albomycin in 1947.
The discovery of streptomycin led to controversies over its royalties from commercial production, and the Nobel Prize. Unbeknownst to Schatz, Waksman had claimed financial benefits only for himself and the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation. A lawsuit granted Schatz 3% of the royalties and legal recognition as the co-discover. Then, the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded solely to Waksman explicitly "for his discovery of streptomycin,"[3] which The Lancet remarked as "a considerable mistake by failing to recognize Schatz's contribution."[4] As an act of goodwill, Schatz was honored with the Rutgers University Medal in 1994.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreigi72veqa53yqhoecjkieuoeisfp4chhslquwxjvlqiekcdp4iz6q)
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