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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on

October 10th, 2012. I'm Steve Murski. Well, I'm thinking that this is going to be a very, very hectic day.

I plan to go to the office. I was going to get a haircut, but I'm...

Which if you could see me, you would see is quite a necessity,

but I'm afraid that'll probably have to be postponed.

It'll be a pretty crazy day at my office. That's Robert Lefkowitz, who received word very early this

morning Eastern Time, that he and his former postdoctoral fellow Brian Kobilka had won the Nobel Prize

for Chemistry.

More from Lefkowitz in a bit.

His phone connection was a bit dodgy, but you can make out what he was saying.

Stefan Normark of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry made the public announcement.

You'll also hear committee members Sven Ledeen and Sarah Snagerup-Lince.

Here's Normark.

This year's prize deals with cells and sensibility.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert J. Lefvitz at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University

Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. And Professor Brian K. K. K. K. W. Wilka

at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.

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