Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 In the 1960s, when the Japanese scientist Osamu Shimomura began to study the bioluminescent jellyfish Aequorea victoria, he had no idea what a scientific revolution it would lead to. Thirty years later, Martin Chalfie used the jellyfish’s green fluorescent protein to help him study life’s smallest building block, the…

Swedish 8 oktober 2003 Allt levande består av celler. En enda människa har lika många celler som stjärnorna i en galax, ungefär 100 miljarder. De olika cellerna, t.ex. muskelceller, njurceller och nervceller, samverkar i ett intrikat system i var och en av oss. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi, Peter Agre och Roderick MacKinnon, har bidragit till…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is to be shared by three scientists: Frenchman Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”. The Laureates’ contributions have already assumed…

English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 Three scientists share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William S. Knowles, previously at Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan and K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Roger D. Kornberg for his fundamental studies concerning how the information stored in the genes is copied, and then transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the chemical foundations for life were a mystery. Today we know how many of the most important processes function, all the way down to the atomic level. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for the detailed mapping of the ribosome…

Swedish 10 oktober 2001 Tre forskare delar årets Nobelpris i kemi: Dr William S. Knowles, som varit verksam vid Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, professor Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan samt professor K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Kalifornien, USA. De tre organiska kemisterna får priset “för utvecklandet av…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 There is an increasing need for complex chemicals. Humanity wants new medicines that can cure cancer or halt the devastating effects of deadly viruses in the human body. The electronics industry is searching for substances that can emit light, and the agricultural industry wants substances that can protect crops.…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 7 oktober 2003 Den kvantfysik som styr mikrovärlden uppvisar en hel rad spektakulära effekter som normalt inte förekommer i vår vanliga makrovärld. Det finns dock vissa situationer där kvantfenomen blir synliga. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar arbeten rörande två av dessa: supraledning och suprafluiditet. Alexei Abrikosov och Vitaly Ginzburg har utvecklat teorier…