Joanna Sigfred Fowler was born on August 9,1942 and is a scientist emeritus at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
12 Facts About Joanna Fowler
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Joanna Fowler served as professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and director of Brookhaven's Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program.
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Joanna Fowler has received many awards for her pioneering work, including the National Medal of Science.
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Joanna Fowler was born in Miami, Florida, and attended the University of South Florida, where she received her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1964.
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Joanna Fowler worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1969 until her retirement in January 2014.
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Joanna Fowler is an emeritus professor in the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook University.
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Joanna Fowler is married to Frank Fowler, an emeritus professor of organic chemistry at Stony Brook University.
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Joanna Fowler's research has led to new fundamental knowledge, development of important scientific tools, and has broad impacts in the application of nuclear medicine to diagnostics and health.
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Joanna Fowler has worked for much of her career developing radiotracers for brain imaging to understand the mechanisms underlying drug addiction.
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Joanna Fowler developed another radiotracer, as these "tagged" molecules are called, that first showed that cocaine's distribution in the human brain parallels its effects on behavior.
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Joanna Fowler played a central role in the development of a fluorine-18-labeled glucose molecule enabling human brain glucose metabolism to be measured noninvasively.
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In 2003, Joanna Fowler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.