Richard Axel

Nobel Lecture

Scents and Sensibility: A Molecular Logic of Olfactory Perception

Richard Axel held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2004, at Sal Adam, Berzeliuslaboratoriet, Karolinska Institutet.

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From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2004, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 2005

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