Nobel Prize

I was born in New York City in 1918 into a family that had a number of artistic people among its members. My father’s brother and a sister’s husband were probably the best known. The latter, Ivan Olinsky, taught for many years at the Art Students’ League in New York City. I have been told…

Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, gfp”. Lessons from the jellyfish’s green light Off the west coast of North America, floats the jellyfish…

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…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The body and soul of man is the most complex and refined chemical machine that we know. Even the simplest forms of life, for example bacteria, are almost immeasurably intricate systems compared to…

German 8. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, dass der Nobelpreis in Chemie des Jahres 2003 „für Entdeckungen bezüglich der Kanäle in Zellmembranen“ verliehen wird, mit der einen Hälfte des Preises an Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, U.S.A. „für die Entdeckung von Wasserkanälen“ und mit der anderen Hälfte an Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers. There the inherited land is equally divided among sisters and brothers, and not enough land…

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The undisputed master of chemistry is Nature, and the variety of substances it routinely creates has long been a source of inspiration and perspiration for chemists. Investigating and recreating the natural substances essential for life is a painstaking process; their size and complexity makes anything other than the simplest compounds almost impossible to reproduce under…