2005

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Credits and References for the 2005 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine Scientific Advisers, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Bo Angelin, Medicine Bertil Hamberger, Surgery Göran K. Hansson, Medicine, Chair of the Nobel Committee Hans Jörnvall, Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Staffan Normark, Microbiology Olof Nyrén,…

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Biographical

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. At the time I was born my father was 19 years old and in the…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005             Carbon compounds of different shapes and sizes build up all life on earth, but they can also be produced artificially. This is called organic synthesis and is central in chemistry. Here molecules are tailored and built in the service of mankind. The…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005     ● Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005: ● The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: ● The Royal Society of Chemistry: ● Chemical and Engineering News: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/ 8051/8051olefin.html and http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/ 8051/print/8051olefin2.html ● The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999…

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