Swedish 15 October 1997 har beslutat utdela 1997 års Nobelpris i kemi med ena hälften till: Professor Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA och Dr. John E. Walker, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Storbritannien för deras klargörande av den enzymatiska mekanismen för syntes av adenosintrifosfat (ATP) och med andra…

English 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Professor Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Dr. John E. Walker, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine…

English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 A human cell contains some hundred thousand different proteins. These have numerous important functions: as accelerators of chemical reactions in the form of enzymes, as signal substances in the form of hormones, as important actors in the immune defence and by being responsible for the cell’s form and…

Interview transcript I’m very happy and pleased to be sitting here with Sidney Altman. We are sitting here on 26th June 2000 which is a special day. And we are here in Lindau at the Nobel Prize meeting. Meeting of some 16 Nobel Prize Laureates. We have taken the opportunity to catch…

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood. The major extracurricular activities that I…

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Interview transcript Dr Frederick Sanger, welcome to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few persons that have been awarded Nobel Prize twice. So I suppose that maybe you know how to do it. Many people would like to get Nobel Prize but they don’t. Can you share your secret…

Interview transcript Dr Frederick Sanger, welcome to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few persons that have been awarded Nobel Prize twice. So I suppose that maybe you know how to do it. Many people would like to get Nobel Prize but they don’t. Can you share your secret…

Interview transcript Professor Paul Berg, welcome to Stockholm and to the Nobel interview. Paul Berg: Thank you. You received another prize in 1980 for your pioneering work on recombinant DNA, the molecule that governs chemical machinery in all living cells, so in some sense one may say that you are the father…

Growing Up In Little Falls, Minnesota I was the second of two children born to Betty (Elisabeth) and Franklyn Kobilka on May 30, 1955 in Little Falls, Minnesota, a town of approximately 7,000 inhabitants along the Mississippi River. While small by most standards, Little Falls was the largest town in Morrison County and was known…