Nobel Prize

Herta Müller has lived through the kind of vicious absurdity that most can only imagine. A member of Romania’s German minority, which was protected when Romania allied itself with Hitler, but was then persecuted under Ceauşescu’s communist dictatorship, she will always be an outsider, someone whose past will never allow them to fit in. Born…

At first sight it seems simple enough: DNA makes RNA makes protein, and, by extension, you and me and every living thing. But this ‘central dogma of biology’, as famously called it, requires some stupendously complicated machinery to make it happen, and much of the last half century of research has been devoted to unravelling…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physics, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication” and the other half…

English 7 October 2009 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Thomas A. Steitz Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Ada E. Yonath Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”…

7 oktober 2009 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2009 gemensamt till Venkatraman Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Storbritannien Thomas A. Steitz Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Ada E. Yonath Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel “för studier av ribosomens struktur och funktion” Ribosomen omvandlar DNA-koden till liv Årets Nobelpris i…

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The Nobel Laureates Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong Willard S. Boyle, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA   Popular science Smith, G.E. (2009) The invention and early history of the CCD. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics…

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English 12 October 2009 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” and Oliver E. Williamson University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, “for his analysis of economic governance,…

I was born in Superior, Wisconsin on September 27, 1932 as the second child of Scott and Lucille Williamson. Both of my parents had been high school teachers but my father left teaching when he married my mother and joined my grandfather, Oliver E. Dunn, in the family real estate business. My father was a…