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Milton Wainwright
Milton Wainwright
	File:Milton Wainwright.jpg Milton Wainwright in his lab at Firth Court
Born	February 23, 1950
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Known for	"Alien Bugs", Neopanspermia
	Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology, Astrobiology
Institutions	University of Nottingham (BSc & PhD); National Research Council (Canada) (Postdoctoral Fellow); Department Of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield (current workplace);

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Professor Milton Wainwright is a British microbiologist who became world famous for his claims to have found extraterrestrial life in the stratosphere.^[1]^[2]^[3] His interest are in Astrobiology and History of Science.^[4] He claimed that the idea of natural selection is not original to Darwin or Wallace theory.^[5] Also, he has claimed that the Red rain in Kerala is a biological entity.^[6] Professor Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery penicillin (including that Hitler’s life was saved by the drug) and streptomycin^[7] and on the theory that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer.^[8]

Honours and awards

Honorary Professor and Fellow of the Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, Great Britain, 2012^[9]
Honorary Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2010
Honorary Professor, Cardiff University, Great Britain, 2009

Articles

Wainwright, M., Al Harbi, S. and Wickramasinghe, N.C. (2006). How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere? International Journal of Astrobiology 5,13-15.^[10]
Shivaji, S.,Chaturvedi, P.,Kuresh,K.,Redy,C.B.S.,Wainwright M.et al. (2006). Bacillus aerius sp. nov. isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56,1465-1473.^[11]
Wainwright, M. (2008). Some highlights in the history of mycology-a personal journey. Fungal Biology Reviews, 7, 2297-102.^[12]
Wainwright, M., Leswd, A. and Alshammari,F. (2009). Bacteria in amber coal and clay in relation to lithopanspermia. International Journal of Astrobiology 8,141-143.^[13]
Wainwright, M. (2010).The overlooked link between non-virus microbes and cancer. Science Progress 93, 393-40.^[14]
Wainwright, M.(2002). Do fungi play a role in the aetiology of cancer? Reviews of Medical Microbiology 13, 1-6.^[15]
Wainwright,M. (2006). The potential role of non-virus microorganisms in cancer. Current Trends in Microbiology 2, 48-59.^[16]
Wainwright,M.(2011). Charles Darwin mycologist and refuter of his own myth. Fungi 4, 12-20.^[17]
Wainwright, M. (1991). Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy. Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13, 97-124.^[18]
Wainwright, M. and Swan, H.T. (1986). C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical record of penicillin therapy. Medical History 30, 42-56.^[19]

Facebook

Professor Wainwright had a Facebook Appreciation Society since the 20th of February 2013.^[20] This group is consisted of mainly his MBB (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) students at Sheffield University. The group is open to anyone to join except for Sheffield Hallam students.^[21]^[22]^[23]

References

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External links

Milton Wainwright academic page

[1] ttp://news.sky.com/story/1143906/alien-bugs-discovered-in-earths-atmosphere

[2] ttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-is-out-there-above-cheshire-that-is-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html

[3] ttp://www.sci-news.com/space/science-extraterrestrial-life-form-earth-stratosphere-01393.html

[4] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[5] ttp://wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk/

[6] ttp://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/03/1427866.htm

[7] ttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/v047/47.2wainwright.html

[8] ttp://www-07.all-portland.net/pubs/micro_today/pdf/020008.pdf

[9] ttp://www.shef.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[10] ttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=457860

[11] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[12] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[13] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[14] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[15] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[16] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[17] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[18] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[19] ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright

[20] ttps://www.facebook.com/groups/571263502886427/

[21] ttp://sheffield.tab.co.uk/2013/09/29/the-tabs-a-z-of-sheffield-part-two/

[22] ttp://www.shropshirestar.com/lifestyle/blogs/2012/05/04/university-rivalries-its-not-just-the-boat-race/

[23] ttp://sheffield.tab.co.uk/2013/09/12/seventieth-heaven/

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