Chemistry

Press release

English 6 October 2004 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation” jointly to Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Avram Hershko Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and Irwin Rose University of California, Irvine, USA Proteins labelled for…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004         Credits     Editors: Lars Thelander and Bengt Nordén, Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Eva Krutmeijer, Malin Lindgren and Anna Lindquist, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Kjell Lundin Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2004 © The Royal Swedish Academy of…

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Biographical

Odd Hassel was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, I7 May, 1897. His father was Ernst Hassel, a physician who specialized in gynaecology, his mother Mathilde née Klaveness. In 1915 he entered the University of his native town where he studied mathematics and physics with chemistry as his chief subject and graduated as a cand.…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004             Proteins are life’s building-blocks In the tiniest intestinal bacteria, in roses and toadstools, in mice and men – in all living cells – proteins answer for both form and function. Naturally, research into proteins is therefore of the greatest interest, particularly for…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Arne Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the fundamental conditions for life on Earth is the ability of carbon atoms to bind each other to a practically unlimited extent. They form chains, often very branched, but also rings…

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Speed read

For centuries, philosophers, writers and musicians have all mused upon the differences between the sexes, but to scientists this can be largely explained by the actions of a variety of chemical messengers, or sex hormones, that influence the development of masculine or feminine characteristics. Very little was known about the origin of these sex hormones…

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