Nobel Prize

English Presentation Speech by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2004 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Peace Prize Laureate, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.…

Norwegian Tale av leder i Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Oslo, 10. desember, 2004. Dykkar Majestet, Høgvyrde Kronprinspar, Prisvinnar, Eksellensar, Mine damer og herrar, “Den Norske Nobelkomite har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2004 skal tildelast Wangari Maathai for hennar innsats for ei berekraftig utvikling, demokrati og fred. Fred på jorda avheng av at vi maktar å…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004   Species differences The area of the olfactory epithelium (red) in dogs is some forty times larger than in humans. Mice – the species Axel and Buck studied – have about one thousand different odorant receptor types. Humans have a smaller number than mice; some of the…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004   A large family of odorant receptors Richard Axel and Linda Buck published their fundamental paper in 1991, in which they described the genes coding for a large family of odorant receptors. The odorant receptors are located on the olfactory receptor cells in the nasal cavity. Each…

New York City is my world. I was born in Brooklyn, the first child of immigrant parents whose education was disrupted by the Nazi invasion of Poland. Although not themselves learned, my parents shared a deep respect for learning. I grew up in a home rich in warmth, but empty of books, art or music.…

I was born in 1947 in Seattle, Washington, a city surrounded by mountains, forests, and the sea. My mother was the daughter of Swedish immigrants who had come to the US in the late nineteenth century while my father’s family had Irish roots on one side and ancestors extending back to the American Revolution on…