2009
Charles K. Kao – Biographical
Biographical
Family Background The Kao family comes from a township called Zhangyan in the Jinshan district near Shanghai, China. As landowners, the family would have been considered wealthy. The sons of each generation would be well educated in the style of the times. My knowledge of the family’s genealogy goes back only to Grandfather. Grandfather Kao…
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Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. At the beginning…
moreJack W. Szostak – Biographical
Biographical
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. Now that I find myself in the surprising situation of having to write my own biography, and thus to reflect on my career, I find the same…
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Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.…
moreBarack H. Obama – Nobelforedrag
Nobel Lecture
Foredrag av Barack H. Obama i Oslo Rådhus. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2009 Produced by NRK Norwegian Nobelforedrag av Barack H. Obama, Oslo, 10. desember, 2009. Deres majesteter, deres kongelige høyheter, ærede medlemmer av Nobelkomiteen, borgere av Amerika og borgere av verden: Jeg mottar denne hederen med dyp takknemlighet og stor ydmykhet. Det er…
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Award ceremony speech
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Presentation
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