The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002           From early diagnosis to new medicines   Mass spectrometry and NMR have been around for a long time, but the ability to use them on molecules as large as proteins was something most scientists considered impossible. This year’s Nobel prize Laureates showed that…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002             Mass spectrometry: Of course proteins can fly!     With mass spectrometry we can now quickly identify a substance in a sample by accurately determining its molecular mass. Mass spectrometry is a very widely used method for small and medium-sized molecules. John…

My father, Herbert Bennett Fenn, the eldest of three children was born and raised on a farm in northern Delaware which his father operated but did not own. I never saw that farm but I vividly remember my Grandmother’s frequent reference to a single chestnut tree in the front yard, so large and prolific that…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002   Further reading Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002: http://nobelprize.org Mass Spectrometry: Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Richard B. Cole (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Jan 15, 1997 Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides. Methods in Molecular Biology by J.r. Chapman (ed.), Humana Press, 2000 NMR:…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 “for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules” with one half jointly to John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka “for their development of soft desorption ionisation…

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French Notice biobibliographique Imre Kertész est né le 9 novembre 1929 à Budapest, dans une famille juive. 1944 il fut déporté au camp de concentration d’Auschwitz-Birkenau. Il fut libéré à Buchenwald en 1945. Après son retour en Hongrie, il travailla à Budapest pour le quotidien Világosság à partir de 1948, puis il fut licencié en…