1988

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In the 1980s, efforts to determine the structures of all known proteins needed to overcome one large – or more accurately speaking, microscopic – barrier. Many proteins involved in vital biological functions, such as the transport of nutrients into cells or nerve impulses, span the fatty membranes that surround every cell in order to carry…

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Banquet speech

Leon M. Lederman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My colleagues Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger join me to express our feelings of pleasure and gratitude for the decision to award us the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics, thus making us experts on the Brazilian…

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