Chemistry

Biographical

I was born on December 31, 1937, in Karcag, Hungary. Karcag is a small town of around 25,000 inhabitants, about 150 kilometers east of Budapest. It had a Jewish community of nearly one thousand people. My father, Moshe Hershko, was a schoolteacher in the Jewish elementary school in Karcag; most of the Jewish children in…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor William Lipscomb. You were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 25 years ago and it’s quite a long time, and I suppose that you have a long perspective on your field, and I wonder first if the Nobel Prize has changed the path of your…

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Interview

Interview transcript This is an interview with Professor Paul Boyer, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for his elucidation of the enzyme mechanism underlying the synthesis of ATP and we are in Lindau for the 50th anniversary of the “Nobelpreisträgertagung”, as it is called in German, in Lindau and…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004         Further Reading     Scientific American nr 1/2001 The Ubiquitin System  Ciechanover et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 1365-1368, 1980 Hershko et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77, 1783-1786, 1980     Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | …

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Press release

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…

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