Nobel Prize

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize to Peter Agre “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Cells signal with salt!     As you read this brief text enormous numbers of ion channels are opening and closing in your brain, of the order of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015). The amount of ions moving in the channels during this time would correspond…

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Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, To write is to awaken counter-voices within…

English Bioibliographical notes John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa. His background is both German and English. His parents sent him to an English school and he grew up using English as his first language. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to England where he worked initially…

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Swedish Biobliografisk notis John Maxwell Coetzee är född 1940 i Kapstaden, Sydafrika. Han har både tysk och engelsk bakgrund. Föräldrarna skickade honom till en engelsk skola och han växte upp med engelska som förstaspråk. I början av 1960-talet flyttade han till England och där arbetade han i början som dataprogrammerare. Han bedrev sedan studier i…

French Notice biobibliographique John Maxwell Coetzee est né en 1940 au Cap en Afrique du Sud. Il est d’ascendance à la fois allemande et anglaise. Ses parents l’envoyèrent dans une école anglaise et il grandit avec l’anglais comme première langue. Il élut domicile en Angleterre au début des années 60 où il travailla d’abord comme…