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Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, gfp”. Lessons from the jellyfish’s green light Off the west coast of North America, floats the jellyfish…
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Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. At the beginning…
moreThe structure of a photosynthetic reaction center
In 1984, after having analyzed the X-ray diffraction pattern from the reaction center crystals, Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel could present the 3-dimensional structure of the reaction center, the first high-resolution structure of a membrane protein and also the most complex molecular structure which had been solved. The reaction center is composed of…
moreAdolf Windaus – Biographical
Biographical
Adolf Windaus was born in Berlin on December 25, 1876, the son of Adolf Windaus and Margarete Elster. His ancestors had for generations mostly been artisans (from his father’s side, drapery manufacturers). After attending the renowned “Französisches Gymnasium” (French grammar school) in Berlin, where his interests were mainly focussed on literature, he took up medicine…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the principal aims of organic chemistry is to make clear the chemical structure of substances found in living nature. Interest has been directed particularly towards substances with vital functions or otherwise obvious…
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Press release
15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Herbert C Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA and Professor Georg Wittig, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis. Nobel…
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Animations Animation: Water channels in cell membranes I Usage of these pictures and movies are subject to permission from Drs. Emad Tajkhorshid () and Klaus Schulten (). A reference to the original source is required (Tajkhorshid, E., Nollert, P., Jensen, M.O., Miercke, L.J., O’Connell, J., Stroud, R.M., and Schulten, K. (2002). Science 296, 525-530). Phone:…
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