Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | | Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005   The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Thanks to this pioneering discovery, peptic ulcer…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | | Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web

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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…

I was born on the 11th of June 1937, in North Adelaide, South Australia, the first child of middle-class parents. I am a fifth generation South Australian. South Australia is a charming state, a little overfull of the fact that, along with Victoria, it was settled by free settlers from England, who took part in…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is to be shared by three scientists: Frenchman Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”. The Laureates’ contributions have already assumed…

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