Nobel Prize

  Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2008 to Paul Krugman “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”. Small World – Big Cities What are the consequences of free trade and globalization? What…

  Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 to Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases. One half is awarded to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”…

Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, gfp”. Lessons from the jellyfish’s green light Off the west coast of North America, floats the jellyfish…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. At the beginning…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF). His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 jointly to Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. RNA interference is a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. KendallMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USAandRichard E. TaylorStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), CA, USA for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons…