My grandfather, Harlow Shapley, was a noted astronomer. He worked at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson in Pasadena, California, where he did some important work, most notably determining that the sun was not located at the center of the galaxy, but rather, out on the fringes. His first three children were born in Pasadena,…

Links to other sites Articles Buchen, L. (2011) Cell signalling caught in the act, Nature 475:273–274. Buchen, L. (2011) It’s all about the structure, Nature 476: 387–390. Williams, R. (2010) Robert Lefkowitz: Godfather of G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Circ. Res. 106:812–814. Videos Robert Lefkowitz celebrating the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Video lecture by Robert…

Links to other sites Articles Buchen, L. (2011) Cell signalling caught in the act, Nature 475:273–274. Buchen, L. (2011) It’s all about the structure, Nature 476: 387–390.

Growing Up In Little Falls, Minnesota I was the second of two children born to Betty (Elisabeth) and Franklyn Kobilka on May 30, 1955 in Little Falls, Minnesota, a town of approximately 7,000 inhabitants along the Mississippi River. While small by most standards, Little Falls was the largest town in Morrison County and was known…

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I was born on December 18, 1951 in the New York City borough of Queens. My parents, Ernest and Lillian, were both public high school teachers of a subject that is probably no longer taught, called Secretarial Studies, which focused on typing and taking dictation via two methods of shorthand stenography, Pitman and Gregg. Their…

Family Background John Bertrand Gurdon (JBG), born 2 October 1933, was brought up in a comfortable home by his parents (fig.1) on the Surrey/Hampshire border in a village, Frensham in South England, endowed with a large amount of National Trust heathland and ponds. His mother, Marjorie Byass, was from an East Yorkshire farming family. Brought…

Links to other sites Blog Videos Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: What Have We Learned from Market Design. Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, Boston University, 2007. Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: Market Failure and Market Design. Google Tech Talks, 2007. Review article Roth A. E. (2008) What have we learned from market design?, Economic…

English 15 October 2012 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2012 to Alvin E. RothHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA and Lloyd S. ShapleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the theory of stable allocations and the…

Swedish 15 oktober 2012 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2012 till Alvin E. RothHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA och Harvard Business School, Boston, MA USA och Lloyd S. ShapleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “för teorin om stabila allokeringar och för utformning av marknadsinstitutioner…