Nobel Prize

Rita Levi-Montalcini began her scientific career in danger, as a Jew in Fascist Italy. She ended it in triumph, as the neuroembryologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor, a prominent figure in Italian politics, and an active researcher and mentor until her death at the age of 103.

Linda Buck was fascinated by one seemingly simple question: how does our sense of smell work? Once she started to look for the answer, she didn’t let it go. She followed the olfactory process step by step to the very heart of what makes us human: our perceptions, preferences and memories.

Elizabeth Blackburn has evolved from a self-described “lab rat” to an explorer in the realms of health and public policy. She discovered the molecular structure of telomeres and co-discovered the enzyme telomerase, essential pieces in the puzzle of cellular division and DNA replication.

Svante Pääbo did not submit a biography.

Laureates on stage at the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 1992. From left: physics laureate Georges Charpak, chemistry laureate Rudolph A. Marcus, medicine laureates Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs. 1992 Nobel Prize laureates on stage at the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall…

Transcript from an interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies, 6 December 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, co-recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Welcome to this interview with…

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