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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
"for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
John B. Fenn Koichi Tanaka Kurt Wüthrich
John B. Fenn Koichi Tanaka Kurt Wüthrich
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA Japan Switzerland
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, USA		 Shimadzu Corp.
Kyoto, Japan		 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Zurich, Switzerland; The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
b. 1917 b. 1959 b. 1938
 
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