2001
Credits and References for the 2001 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Anita Aperia – Paediatrics Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology, Chairman of the Nobel Committee Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Anders Zetterberg – Tumour Cytology…
moreLeland H. Hartwell – Biographical
Biographical
I don’t remember much about my early childhood. I am told that before I began school, my older cousin would return from her school and teach me what she had learned. By the time I was 10 or so, I was displaying a curiosity that might have suggested an academic bent. I was an avid…
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The Implications of the Discoveries
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 The basic discoveries made by this year’s Laureates will have broad applications within many fields of biology and medicine. The discoveries are important in understanding how chromosomal instability develops in cancer cells, i.e. how parts of chromosomes are…
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Biographical
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. After the 1930s recession they moved to Wembley, North-West London, where my father worked as a mechanic in the local H.J.…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse for their discoveries of “key regulators of the cell cycle”. Using genetic and…
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