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  Frequently Asked Questions
Alfred Nobel left no explanation as to why the prize for peace was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees.
According to the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, information about the nominations is not to be disclosed, publicly or privately, for a period of fifty years.
All Nobel Laureates are presented with a biography, autobiography or a CV in the Nobel Laureates section of each Nobel Prize category.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Stanley Cohen (doctor)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American-born researcher and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986).
Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms.
American-born Doctor Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986), is a distinguished researcher and academic, associated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stanley-Cohen-%28doctor%29   (673 words)

  
 Arvid Carlsson Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arvid Carlsson Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize to Arvid Carlsson (submitted by Davis)
[ Literature * Peace * Chemistry * Physics * Economics * Medicine ]
www.almaz.com /nobel/medicine/2000a.html   (86 words)

  
 Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Another Kornberg Nabs A Nobel
Roger D. Kornberg, a structural biologist at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process by which the genetic code of DNA is converted into messenger RNA for later translation into proteins.
Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for his work on DNA replication.
The RNA polymerase machinery "is the largest and most complex nonrepetitive protein structure reported to date," says Phillip A. Sharp, professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
pubs.acs.org /cen/news/84/i41/8441chemistry.html   (574 words)

  
  Nobel Laureate to Present Lecture at UK
LEXINGTON, KY (April 21, 1999) – The graduate students of the Department of Pharmacology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, have invited Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine to give the William R. Martin Visiting Professor Lecture entitled "Cellular Signaling with Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP" at 3 p.m.
Murad and his colleagues received the Nobel Prize for their discovery that nitric oxide, a colorless and odorless gas, lowers blood pressure by acting as a signal to blood vessels to relax and widen.
Active in both academic medicine and the pharmacological industry throughout his career, Murad has been president and chief executive officer at Molecular Geriatrics Corporation and vice president of research and development at Abbott Laboratories and held academic positions at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Stanford University.
www.uky.edu /PR/News/MCPRNews/1999/nobel.htm   (295 words)

  
 Andrew Z. Fire - Photo Gallery
Nobel Laureates Craig C. Mello and Andrew Z. Fire with wives, Edit Mello and Rachel Krantz, posing with the Royal Swedish siblings (from left: Prince Carl Philip, Princess Madeleine and Crown Princess Victoria).
Stanford President John Hennessy, Nobel Laureate Andrew Fire and Philip Pizzo, Dean of the School of Medicine, appeared together at a press conference after the announcement of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Three Nobel Laureates: from left, Roger Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; and Andrew Z. Fire, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2006.
www.nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2006/fire-photo.html   (437 words)

  
 MilkenInstitute.Org > Events > > Speakers  >  Joshua Lederberg
Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 1958; Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University
Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, is Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University.
He was honored at the age of 33 for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.
www.milkeninstitute.org /events/events.taf?function=show&cat=allconf&EventID=GC03&SPID=863&level1=speakers&level2=bio&ID=26   (232 words)

  
 Biotechnology Study Center honors Jean-Pierre Changeux, Charles Weissmann and Eric Kandel
Pegylated interferon alpha, in combination with ribavirin is now the first-line treatment of hepatitis C. He has also unraveled the molecular genetics of neurodegenerative diseases (scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jacob — or "mad cow" disease) caused by infective protein particles, prions, and developed tools for the detection and decontamination of prions in veterinary and clinical settings.
The 2000 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Dr. Kandel is honored for his analysis of how molecular form follows neural function.
It was established in 2000 by Dr. Weissmann, Research Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Biotechnology Study Center, and Nobel laureates Sir John Vane of the William Harvey Research Institute, and Bengt Samuelsson of the Karolinska Institute, among others.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-04/nyum-bsc041006.php   (779 words)

  
 NIH Record-3-21-2000--Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel Visits NIH
Dr. Günter Blobel, the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, began his talk in the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series on Mar. 1 with a history lesson.
By way of explanation, he said that much of the work that led to his Nobel Prize is not on the Internet and may be hard for younger people to trace.
Nobel laureate Dr. Günter Blobel relaxes in the Clinical Center's special events office prior to his lecture on Mar. 1.
www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/03_21_2000/story03.htm   (521 words)

  
 CSHL - Press release - May. 13th 2002
Nobel Laureate to Deliver Keynote Address at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
Sir Paul Nurse, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the Keynote Address on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 pm at the sixth biennial Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Cell Cycle" Meeting.
The trio were awarded the Nobel Prize for their independent discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
www.cshl.edu /public/releases/press051302.html   (285 words)

  
 LivingSugars.com
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1999 to Gunter Blobel, for the discovery that "proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell."
These questions have been answered through the work of the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Dr. Günter Blobel, a cell and molecular biologist at the Rockefeller University in New York.
Already at the beginning of the 1970s he discovered that newly synthesized glycoproteins have an intrinsic signal that is essential for governing them to and across the membrane of the endoplasmic recticulum, one of the cell's organelles.
www.livingsugars.com /nobel.htm   (817 words)

  
 Laureates of Tomorrow Nobel Essay Contest
Dr. Günter Blobel, the 1999 Nobel Prize Laureate, applied this rationale to explain the mechanism by which newly synthesized proteins are transported to their destinations of function within and out of cells.
Under the mentorship of George E. Palade (Nobel Prize Laureate in 1974), who had already found the intracellular path of secretory proteins, Blobel began to perform intense research at Rockefeller University in New York into the issue of cellular protein targeting.
After finishing the work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Blobel continued to show remarkable dedication to science, as he become a leading researcher in the area of protein transport into/out of the nucleus and ribonucleoprotein complexes.
www.nyas.org /programs/nobel/essay3.html   (1965 words)

  
 The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Disase
Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, Director of the Research Center for Cell Signaling, the John S. Dunn, Sr.
Distinguished Chair in Physiology and Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
www.uth.tmc.edu /uth_orgs/imm/faculty/murad.htm   (262 words)

  
 About School of Medicine Research
The NYU School of Medicine counts among it many graduates Dr. Albert Sabin and Dr. Jonas Salk, developers of the polio vaccine, and Dr. Eric Kandel, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
We are fortunate to have a University and School of Medicine that see growth and change not as criticism of the past but as opportunity for further distinction.
We are bringing to the campus a new generation of physician-scientists who have established national and international reputations in such key research fields as medicine, cancer, radiology/imaging, and radiation oncology.
www.med.nyu.edu /research/res_topics/aboutus/deans_bio.html   (610 words)

  
 The History Buff, Historical Autographs and Manuscripts, and Documents of Scientists and Nobel Laureates in fields of ...
Huggins won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing that human cancers could be treated by altering the hormone environment in the body.
Legendary figure in medicine and considered to be one of founders of modern pathology.
Collection of signatures on index cards of the three investigators who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their seminal discovery of the structure of the DNA molecules.Signatures and cards in excellent condition.
www.ehistorybuff.com /science.html   (1482 words)

  
 South African Nobel Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Medicine relates to the branches of medical science that deal with non-surgical techniques while physics is the branch of biological sciences that deals with the functioning of living organisms.
Our understanding of our own bodies and how to remain healthy in a world full of disease is essential to our existence and this award lauds researchers who help to achieve these goals.
The first Nobel Prize in this category was given to Emil von Behring for his work on serum.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/great-safricans/nobel-prize-medicine.htm   (192 words)

  
 Ohio University Outlook
ATHENS, Ohio (Oct. 28, 2003) -- Ohio University Marvin & Ann Dilley White Professor Tadeusz Malinski was one of seven recipients of the GEMI Fund Award on Thursday, Oct. 23, in Boston.
Louis Ignarro, the 1998 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology and Medicine, presented the award to Malinski at the ceremony.
The GEMI Award, which was founded by AGA Linde Healthcare, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical International and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, will be been given biannually to researchers who are conducting significant innovative research in medicine related to the treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of diseases.
www.ohio.edu /outlook/59n-034.cfm   (425 words)

  
 Nobelprize.org
The scope of the awarded work ranged from the sub-atomic observations made by the 2007 Physics Laureates to the global risks that the 2007 Peace Laureates are monitoring and publicizing.
Find out more about the 2007 Nobel Laureates before they come to Oslo and Stockholm in December to receive the Nobel Prize.
Medicine To Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for producing specific genetic alterations in mice.
nobelprize.org   (239 words)

  
 Scientific American.com: Ask a Nobel Laureate - Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Z. Fire is a professor of pathology and genetics at Stanford University and a former whiz kid who finished college by the age of 19.
Craig C. Mello is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass.
As the Nobel press release notes: "This year's Nobel Laureates have discovered a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information."
www.sciam.com /askanobel/index.cfm?page=medicine   (273 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Interview of Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2001
He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.
We only have 75 professors, which is a very small number, but have 7 Nobel Laureates, the highest ratio in the world.
What Peter Agre (2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) may also have told you is, the problem with the Nobel Prize is that it is like a third job.
english.people.com.cn /200612/15/eng20061215_332957.html   (1524 words)

  
 FOCUS Information Agency
We, Nobel Laureates in the sciences, are gravely concerned about the ongoing trial of five Bulgarian nurses, Valya Chervenyashka, Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Kristiana Valcheva, and a Palestinian doctor, Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a, in Tripoli.
Edmond H.Fischer Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1992)
Ferid Murad Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
www.focus-fen.net /?id=f1198   (1309 words)

  
 Stop Infant Circumcision SOCIETY - Nobel Laureates For Genital Integrity
Francis H.C. Crick, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine 1962
Then I learned that Nobel laureate, Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, endorsed this important human rights resolution in 1995.
We arrived then at the airport and discovered that his plane was to be late.  I had this Nobel laureate Harvard biologist, this magnificent teacher and human being all to myself in the Tallahassee airport for two hours, a lonely young intactivist jailbird’s dream.
stopinfantcircumcision.org /crick-wald.htm   (2809 words)

  
 SHKP Nobel Laureate Lecture by Professor Ignarro
There are undoubtedly many as yet unknown functions of NO. This allows for an extensive opportunity to develop novel drugs for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of a multitude of cardiovascular and other disorders such as gastrointestinal ulcers and inflammatory bowel disease.
The Sun Hung Kai Properties Nobel Laureates Distinguished Lectures, launched in 2004, are sponsored by Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Co-organised by SHKP and CUHK, the lecture series having Nobel Laureates speak to a broad cross-section of the community aims to promote the discovery and the dissemination of knowledge, professional and entrepreneurial expertise and contributions to humanity.
www.cuhk.edu.hk /cpr/pressrelease/060911e.htm   (1238 words)

  
 Who We Are | The New York Academy of Sciences
The competition, open to all juniors in NYC public, private, and parochial schools, required students to write essays examining the impact on science and society of major scientific achievements by Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry or physiology/ medicine.
The Nobel Monument was raised in 2003 in a joint project initiated and overseen by the Consulate General of Sweden and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation with the purpose of honoring all American Nobel Laureates as well as the founder of the Nobel Prize, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
In addition to medicine, she is politically active and enjoys watching C-SPAN and debating politics with her friends and family.
www.nyas.org /about/newsDetails.asp?newsID=190   (1865 words)

  
 Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center 2007 Holiday Gala - Cancer Milestones
Linda Buck, a member of the Hutchinson Center’s Basic Sciences Division, receives the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her groundbreaking work in understanding the mechanisms of olfaction, or the sense of smell.
Lee Hartwell, president and director of the Hutchinson Center, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries regarding the mechanisms that control cell division in yeast.
Donnall Thomas, the founding director of the Hutchinson Center’s Clinical Research Division, receives the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work in bone-marrow transplantation for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders.
www.hutchgala.com /cancer.asp   (576 words)

  
 Improbable Research
The Prizes will be handed to them by a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, all before a standing-room only audience of 1200 people.
In this photo taken at the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Professor Glauber serenely sweeps while Nobel Laureates (left to right) Dudley Herschbach, William Lipscomb, and Richard Roberts wear gigantic shoes in tribute to the 1998 Ig Nobel Statistics Prize winners.
Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow can be seen in the distance at left as he rushes to join his colleagues.
www.improb.com /2006-details.html   (1036 words)

  
 NUS: International Relations Office
Carl E. Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2001) from the University of Colorado whose presentation, Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at the Lowest Temperature in the Universe addressed on the study and use of the curious properties of Bose-Einstein condensation or BEC (the dramatic transformation gas undergoes at a sufficiently low temperature).
The BEC state is a novel form of matter in which a large number of atoms lose their individual identities and behave as a single quantum entity, the "superatom".
Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1981) from Cornell University in New York presented Chemistry's Essential Tension: The Same and Not The Same, in which he explored people's perception of chemistry, in terms of its benefits and also in terms of its risks.
www.nus.edu.sg /iro/events/NLPLS/summary.html   (648 words)

  
 genome.gov | 2005 Jeffrey M. Trent Lectureship in Cancer Research
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 4:00 p.m, the third annual Jeffrey M.Trent Lectureship in Cancer Research was presented by Dr. Harold Varmus, a 1989 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, a former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and currently the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Harold Varmus, former Director of NIH and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City since January 2000.
Varmus is also widely recognized for his studies of the replication cycles of retroviruses and hepatitis B viruses, the functions of genes implicated in cancer, and the development of mouse models for human cancer (the focus of much of the current work in his laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center).
www.genome.gov /16015022   (716 words)

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