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…

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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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 10.000 litres of yeast culture – which corresponds to 150 kg of yeast – was used to finally produce 2 g of pure RNA-polymerase. Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have well-defined nuclei. All green plants, fungi and mammals belong to this group. Roger Kornberg has developed a system of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Claes Gustafsson, KI, Lars Thelander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.   Layout and illustrations: Typoform   Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2006 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2006 Box 50005,…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger D. Kornberg “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”. Roger D. Kornberg Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Born in 1947. Roger Kornberg surrounded by…

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English The Permanent Secretary Press release 12 October 2006 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 Orhan Pamuk The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 is awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.…

Turkish Daimi Sekreter Basın bildirisi 12 Ekim 2006 2006 Nobel Yazın Ödülü Orhan Pamuk 2006 Nobel Yazın Ödülü, “Kentinin melankolik ruhunun izlerini sürerken kültürlerin birbirleriyle çatışması ve örülmesi için yeni simgeler bulan”. Orhan Pamuk’a verilmiştir. The Swedish Academy