Chemistry

Biographical

I was born on September 12, 1930, in Mukawa – a small town in Hokkaido, Japan. I attended primary school there and entered a secondary school in Tomakomai, which is home to one of the biggest paper companies in Japan. At high school, I was interested in mathematics. Consequently, when I entered Hokkaido University in…

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Other resources

Links to other sites Articles Buchen, L. (2011) Cell signalling caught in the act, Nature 475:273–274. Buchen, L. (2011) It’s all about the structure, Nature 476: 387–390.

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Biographical

Eduard Buchner was born in Munich on May 20, 1860, the son of Dr. Ernst Buchner, Professor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine and physician at the University, and Friederike née Martin. He was originally destined for a commercial career but, after the early death of his father in 1872, his older brother Hans, ten years his…

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Biographical

My first encounters with McGill University came when I was still in a baby carriage. My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. There was some precedent for my going there, since…

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Interview

Interview transcript I am pleased to be sitting here with Rudolph Marcus on the 26th of June, the year 2000, which is actually the first day of the Nobel Prize Tagungen in Lindau which is actually the 50th anniversary of these days here. Let me first ask you that you were actually…

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