NLS Nobel Prize Laureate

Thomas Südhof has provided invaluable insight into the workings of the brain and communication of the nerve cells. 

How artistry brought understanding of the G-protein coupled receptors

At the age of 15 he was told that it would be a waste of time for him to become a scientist. Not long afterwards he made a finding that would rewrite textbooks and change our view on cellular development forever. 

After the announcement of the Nobel Committee that Ralph Steinman had been awarded the other half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of dendritic cells nobody could get hold of him to announce the news or get an interview. Hours later the tragic news of his death three days earlier made headlines around the world.

The doors of the Thavenius saloon at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm open and two researchers come in. Not in lab coats or scruffy jeans and T-shirts, but in suits,; one of them with a discrete pin picturing Alfred Nobel on his jacket. Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman have been awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and have come to Stockholm to join the festivities of the Nobel week.

When Dan Shechtman saw the first signs of quasicrystals nobody believed him. He had to endure being called a quasiresearcher, was asked to leave his research group and to check up on the basic facts.