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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 10.000 litres of yeast culture – which corresponds to 150 kg of yeast – was used to finally produce 2 g of pure RNA-polymerase. Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have well-defined nuclei. All green plants, fungi and mammals belong to this group. Roger Kornberg has developed a system of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Claes Gustafsson, KI, Lars Thelander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.   Layout and illustrations: Typoform   Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2006 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2006 Box 50005,…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger D. Kornberg “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”. Roger D. Kornberg Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Born in 1947. Roger Kornberg surrounded by…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002   Credits Editors: Karin Markides, member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bengt Nordén, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Astrid Gräslund, secr. of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Eva Krutmeijer and Katarina Werner, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002           NMR: To understand, we need to see   With NMR the three-dimensional structure of different substances can be studied. Unlike the alternative method, X-ray crystallography, NMR can be applied to molecules in solution. This is a great advantage since the natural environment of…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002           From early diagnosis to new medicines   Mass spectrometry and NMR have been around for a long time, but the ability to use them on molecules as large as proteins was something most scientists considered impossible. This year’s Nobel prize Laureates showed that…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002             Mass spectrometry: Of course proteins can fly!     With mass spectrometry we can now quickly identify a substance in a sample by accurately determining its molecular mass. Mass spectrometry is a very widely used method for small and medium-sized molecules. John…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002   Further reading Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002: http://nobelprize.org Mass Spectrometry: Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Richard B. Cole (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Jan 15, 1997 Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides. Methods in Molecular Biology by J.r. Chapman (ed.), Humana Press, 2000 NMR:…