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Pubblicato il 07/10/2009Read time: 2 mins

Per gli studi sulla struttura e la funzione dei ribosomi, i complessi che traducono il codice genetico in proteine.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (wikipedia)

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Scheda del Nobel Prize:

  • motivazione: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
  • 1/3 del premio
  • paese: Gran Bretagna
  • istituto: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (Gran Bretagna)
  • anno e luogo di nascita:1952 (Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)

Ada E. Yonath (wikipedia)

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Scheda del Nobel Prize:

  • motivazione: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
  • 1/3 del premio
  • paese: Israele
  • istituto: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israele)
  • anno di nascita: 1939

Thomas A. Steitz (wikipedia)

thomas steitz

Scheda del Nobel Prize:

  • motivazione: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
  • 1/3 del premio
  • paese: USA
  • istituto: Yale University, New Haven (CT, USA); Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • anno di nascita: 1940

 

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