Chemistry

Interview

Interview transcript This is an interview with Professor Paul Boyer, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for his elucidation of the enzyme mechanism underlying the synthesis of ATP and we are in Lindau for the 50th anniversary of the “Nobelpreisträgertagung”, as it is called in German, in Lindau and…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004         Further Reading     Scientific American nr 1/2001 The Ubiquitin System  Ciechanover et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 1365-1368, 1980 Hershko et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 1783-1786, 1980     Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | …

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Press release

Swedish 15 October 1997 har beslutat utdela 1997 års Nobelpris i kemi med ena hälften till: Professor Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA och Dr. John E. Walker, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Storbritannien för deras klargörande av den enzymatiska mekanismen för syntes av adenosintrifosfat (ATP) och med andra…

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Press release

English 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Professor Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Dr. John E. Walker, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine…

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Popular information

English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 A human cell contains some hundred thousand different proteins. These have numerous important functions: as accelerators of chemical reactions in the form of enzymes, as signal substances in the form of hormones, as important actors in the immune defence and by being responsible for the cell’s form and…

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Interview

Interview transcript I’m very happy and pleased to be sitting here with Sidney Altman. We are sitting here on 26th June 2000 which is a special day. And we are here in Lindau at the Nobel Prize meeting. Meeting of some 16 Nobel Prize Laureates. We have taken the opportunity to catch…

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Biographical

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood. The major extracurricular activities that I…

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Interview

Interview transcript Dr Frederick Sanger, welcome to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few persons that have been awarded Nobel Prize twice. So I suppose that maybe you know how to do it. Many people would like to get Nobel Prize but they don’t. Can you share your secret…

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