Nobel Prize

English Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Lidin, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, For three millennia we have known that five-fold symmetry is incompatible with periodicity, and for almost three centuries we believed that periodicity was a prerequisite for…

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Swedish 8 oktober 2003 Allt levande består av celler. En enda människa har lika många celler som stjärnorna i en galax, ungefär 100 miljarder. De olika cellerna, t.ex. muskelceller, njurceller och nervceller, samverkar i ett intrikat system i var och en av oss. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi, Peter Agre och Roderick MacKinnon, har bidragit till…

The Laureates Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , The Rockefeller University Animations Original papers “Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein”. Preston, G.M., Carroll, T.P., Guggino, W.B., and Agre, P. (1992). Science 256, 385-387. “Reconstitution of functional water channels in liposomes containing purified red cell CHIP28 protein”.…

French le 8 octobre 2003 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2003, »pour des découvertes concernant des canaux dans la membrane cellulaire» pour moitié à Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA »pour la découverte des canaux à eau», et pour l’autre moitié à Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes…

Swedish 8 oktober 2003 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2003 ”för upptäckter rörande kanaler i cellmembran” med hälften av priset till Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, ”för upptäckten av vattenkanaler” och den andra hälften till Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA ”för…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003             Earlier Nobel Laureates of great importance in the development leading up to this year’s award:               1901 1909 1963 1991 1997 2003             1901 van’t Hoff receives the Nobel Prize in…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University in New York, USA.   Ion channels: Tiny molecular machines     In 1998 Roderick MacKinnon for the first time determined at high resolution the structure of an…