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1998 Nobel prize winners in medicine
ROBERT F. FURCHGOTT won Nobel prize for his discovery concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system
ROBERT F. FURCHGOTT
Born: 1916
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology, Box 29, SUNY Health Science Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
LOUIS J. IGNARRO won Nobel prize for his discovery concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system
LOUIS J. IGNARRO
Born: 1941
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA School of Medicine, 23-315 CHS, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1735, USA
FERID MURAD won Nobel prize for his discovery concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system
FERID MURAD
Born: 1936
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, P.O. Box 20708, Houston, TX 77225, USA
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1998 Nobel prize winners in chemistry
WALTER KOHN won Nobel prize for his development of the density-functional theory
WALTER KOHN
Born: 1923
Affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
JOHN A POPLE won Nobel prize for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
WALTER KOHN
Born: 1925
Affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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1997 Nobel prize winner in medicine
STANLEY B. PRUSINER won Nobel prize for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
STANLEY B. PRUSINER
Born: May 28, 1942
Place of birth: U.S.A.
Residence: San Francisco, U.S.A.
Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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1997 Nobel prize winners in chemistry
PAUL D. BOYER and JOHN E. WALKER won Nobel prize for elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and JENS C. SKOU won Nobel prize for the discovery, Na+, K+-ATPase the first of ion-transporting enzyme.
JENS C. SKOU
Born: 1918
Place of Birth: Denmark
Residence: Denmark
Education: Received his doctoral degree at Aarhus University
Affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Aarhus University, Denmark
E-mail: jcs@mil.aau.dk
Tel: +45 8942 2929
JOHN E. WALKER
Born: 1941
Place of Birth: Halifax, Great Britain
Residence: Great Britain
Education: Received M.A. and Dr.Phil. at Oxford University, Great Britain
Affiliation: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK)
E-mail: walker@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223-402239
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| The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996: The Nobel Assembly at The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize Chemistry 1996 jointly to: Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA,Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA,for their discovery of fullerenes.
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Nobel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine; 1995: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1995 both to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning "the genetic control of early embryonic development"
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Nobel prize in chemistry; 1995 was presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to three researchers for their contributions in showing how sensitive the ozone layer is to the influence of anthropogenic compounds. The winners include, Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, F Sherwood Rowland from the University California, Irvine, California and Mario Molina from the Massachusstes Institute of Techology.
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