The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced which scientists have been recognized with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . Finally, Jaques Dubochet (from the University of Lausanne), Joachim Frank (from Columbia University) and Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge), who developed cryoelectron microscopy to generate three-dimensional images of molecules, have been awarded with the prestigious award.
The announcement has been made by Göran K. Hansson, secretary of the institution, at the headquarters of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, located in Stockholm, which has highlighted this mention for “the development of cryoelectronic microscopy for the determination of structures Resolution of Biomolecules in Solution “. This technology, according to the Karolinska Institute, has brought biochemistry into a new era.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the fathers of cryoelectron microscopy
As the academy explained in a press release, this technology has made it possible to precisely observe proteins that cause resistance to chemotherapies against cancer or to antibiotics usually used against infections or even the mechanisms by which light is captured in the photosynthesis process. .
The Royal Swedish Academy has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to the Americans Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, for the study on gravitational waves that proved Albert Einstein and Jeffrey C. Hall, also Americans, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the body’s internal clock, as they have managed to explain how plants, animals and human beings adapt their biological rhythm to synchronize with the Earth’s revolutions.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, like the others, is endowed with 9 million Swedish crowns (about 940,000 euros).
The next prizes to be awarded will be the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Nobel Prize for Peace and the Prize for Economics, in this order.
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Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, France), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University, USA) and Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) were the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the ” design and synthesis of the smallest machines in the world “.
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