2006

Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Thelander, Member of the , December 10, 2006 Professor Lars Thelander delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is receiving the award because…

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Award ceremony speech

h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…

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Popular information

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Roger D. Kornberg for his fundamental studies concerning how the information stored in the genes is copied, and then transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 1959 Ochoa and Kornberg awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA. 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the double helix. 1965 Jacob, Lwoff and Monod awarded the Nobel Prize in…

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Biographical

My adult scientific career began with graduate study in chemical physics with Harden McConnell at Stanford. I had the idea of elucidating the mechanism of ion transport across biological membranes by nuclear resonance. I thought ion transport must involve rotation of the transport protein in the membrane. Struggling to prove this wrong idea, it occurred…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Scientific articles: ● Structural basis of transcription: An RNA polymerase II elongation complex at 3.3 Å resolution, by A. L. Gnatt, P. Cramer, J. Fu, D. A. Bushnell and R. D. Kornberg, Science 292, p. 1876-1882 (2001) ● Structural basis of transcription: An RNA polymerase II – TFIIB cocrystal…

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