Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Excellent!!: Nobel Prize for structure and function of the ribosome



It has been on everyone's list for number of years now, and this year it finally came true:

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

Congratulations!!

Here's a pic I took in a meeting in Bariloche, Argentina in '07, at a Gene Expression and RNA Processing meeting.

You can see two Nobel prize recipients here: Tom Cech (1989) and Tom Steitz (2009), both in Chemistry.

From left to right: Tom Cech, Tom Steitz, Joan Steitz


More info here: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/index.html


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