Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2011
Dan Shechtman: “After a while I started to like that fight between me and Linus Pauling”
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.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2010
Ei-ichi Negishi: A 50-year dream come true
I met professor Ei-ichi Negishi on the first day of his Swedish visit, in a festively decorated Grand Hotel and with the snow whirling outside.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2010
Robert G. Edwards: The father of IVF
Professor Robert G. Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 for “the development of in vitro fertilization”.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2009
Ada E Yonath: She cracked the ribosome structure
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for mapping the ribosome at the atomic level. The pioneering work was performed by the Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath, who dedicatedly and persistently continued to reveal the large and complex ribosome structure at a time when many believed it was impossible.
