Nobel Prize Explainer: Catching Proteins in the Act
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:35.9 | sellers. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 4th, 2017. I'm Steve Merski. |
| 0:59.0 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly to Jacques de Bochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, for developing cryo-electron |
| 1:06.0 | microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. |
| 1:13.1 | John Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy at 5.53 this morning Eastern Time, |
| 1:18.6 | what follows is an edited version of the announcement and explanation. |
| 1:23.1 | Jacques de Bourget was born in 1942 in Switzerland. |
| 1:30.3 | He studied in Basel and in Geneva, and he's currently honorary professor at the University of Los |
| 1:35.3 | San in Switzerland. He's a Swiss citizen. |
| 1:39.3 | Joachim Frank was born in 1940 in Germany. |
| 1:43.3 | He got his PhD at the Technical University in Munich, |
| 1:47.9 | Mention, and he's currently a professor at Columbia University in New York. |
| 1:54.0 | He is nowadays US citizen. |
| 1:57.7 | Last but not least, Richard Henderson was born in 1945 in Scotland. |
| 2:03.6 | He received his PhD at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and he is since many |
| 2:09.6 | years at the laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge. |
| 2:12.6 | And I think he is the 15th Nobel laureate from that laboratory. |
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