Interview transcript Who or what come first, the chicken or the egg? Welcome to meet Tom Cech, the Nobel Laureate of 1989, when he got the Prize together with Sidney Altman to solve just this question. Before Tom Cech and Sidney Altman, everyone was firmly convinced that the genetic machinery needed a…

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Claes Gustafsson, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2015. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, A fertilised egg cell contains all the information needed to create a human being, and this information is stored in our genetic material, our…

Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin with a reflection on a personal story, that of a voyage through time. The medal I received from his Majesty this evening was designed by Erik Lindberg in 1902 to represent Nature in the form of the Goddess Isis – or eesis -…

I was born in Japan on August 3, 1959. My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. Because my father was also physically frail, I was brought up by my uncle and aunt. When I use the words “father” and “mother” now, I am…

Interview, December 2018 Peter Agre © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud “Huckleberry Finn is my role model” Peter Agre was awarded the chemistry prize for discovering aquaporins, channels that allow water to travel between our body’s cells. In this interview he speaks about how he became interested in science, and shares his influences and inspirations…

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel E-Museum and also to this interview, Professor Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon. I would like to congratulate you to the Nobel Prize. It’s a prize of the scientific community to the most prominent scientists in the community, I would say. And I would like you to…

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For natural biological molecules to interact effectively they need to identify that they are at the correct location, and the most effective means for achieving this lies in recognising their partner’s shape and the chemistry of their interaction. The best-known instance of this molecular recognition is the way in which enzymes are shaped exactly to…

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