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English 9 October 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, for their discovery of fullerenes. The discovery of carbon atoms bound in…
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English 8 October 2003 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize to Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon Howard…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 When Dan Shechtman entered the discovery awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 into his notebook, he jotted down three question marks next to it. The atoms in the crystal in front of him yielded a forbidden symmetry. It was just as impossible as a football – a…
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The Laureates , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , The Rockefeller University Animations Original papers “Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein”. Preston, G.M., Carroll, T.P., Guggino, W.B., and Agre, P. (1992). Science 256, 385-387. “Reconstitution of functional water channels in liposomes containing purified red cell CHIP28 protein”. Zeidel,…
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