2000
Press release
Press release
English NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 2000 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2000 Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system” Summary In the human brain there are more than hundred…
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Nobelprize.org, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
The exciting idea of combining the mouldability and low weight of plastics with the conductivity of metals has prompted intensive development. Since the conductivity can be varied over a very broad area, from poor semi-conductors to metallic-level conductivity, many commercial uses present themselves. Batteries, condensers, anti-static materials and anti-corrosion substances are some examples.
moreHideki Shirakawa – Biographical
Biographical
For the ten years from the third grade of elementary school to the end of high school, I lived in the small city of Takayama, a town of less than sixty thousand, located in the middle of Honshu, Japan. Even though it was far away from Japan’s principal cities, Takayama has been called a “little…
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… and a Nobel medal in gold
Although the polyacetylene film shone like silver, it was not an electrical conductor. Could it perhaps be modified in some way? In the mid-1970s the three Laureates began co-operating to investigate this and results were quick to come. When they caused the films to react with iodine vapour, the conductivity increased by as much as…
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