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Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and…
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Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics with one half to Professor Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA for the discovery of the tau lepton and with…
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Scientific background Discoveries of Mechanisms for Autophagy The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Macroautophagy (“self-eating”, hereafter referred to as autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process whereby the eukaryotic cell can recycle part of its own content by sequestering a portion of…
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