Chemistry
Luis Leloir – Biographical
Biographical
Luis F. Leloir was born in Paris of Argentine parents on September 6, 1906 and has lived in Buenos Aires since he was two years old. He graduated as a Medical Doctor in the University of Buenos Aires in 1932 and started his scientific career at the Institute of Physiology working with Professor Bernardo A.…
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Michael Smith – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Michael Smith’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1993 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Dr. Kary Mullis and myself, I would like to express our deep gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour that has been bestowed on us…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The cell’s contact with the outer world The wall that separates a cell from its surroundings – the membrane – is not an impermeable shell. It is pierced through by various sorts of channel. The channels consist of proteins, each with its…
moreJohn Pople – Biographical
Biographical
My early life was spent in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, a small seaside resort town (population around 5000) on the west coast of England. I was born on October 31, 1925 and lived there with my parents until shortly after the end of the Second World War in 1946. No member of my family was involved in…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Further Reading WATER CHANNELS Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein by G.M. Preston, T.P. Carroll, W.B. Guggino, and P. Agre, Science 256 (1992), p. 385-387 Molecular Mechanisms for Human Diseases by P. Agre and D. Kozono,…
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