Old notices
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2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly toVenkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Papers cited in the announcement include
Garman, E. (1999). Cool data: quantity AND quality. Acta Cryst. D55, 1641–1653.
Holmes, K.C. & Rosenbaum, G. (1998). How X-ray Diffraction with Synchrotron Radiation Got Started. J. Synchrotron Rad. 5, 147–153.
Hope, H., Frolow, F., von Bohlen, K., Makowski, I., Kratky, C., Halfon, Y., Danz, H., Webster, P., Bartels, K.S., Wittmann, H.G. et al. (1989). Cryocrystallography of ribosomal particles. Acta Cryst. B45 (Part 2), 190–199.
Phillips, J.C., Wlodawer, A., Goodfellow, J.M., Watenpaugh, K.D., Sieker, L.C., Jensen, L.H., & Hodgson, K.O. (1977). Applications of synchrotron radiation to protein crystallography. II. Anomalous scattering, absolute intensity and polarization. Acta Cryst. A33, 445–455.
For a list of papers by Dr Ramakrishnan appearing in IUCr journals click here.
For a list of papers by Professor Steitz appearing in IUCr journals click here.
For a list of papers by Professor Yonath appearing in IUCr journals click here.
Ada Yonath's presentation at the Florence Congress in 2005 entitled Can Structures lead to better Drugs? Lessons from Ribosomal Antibiotics can be downloaded via the web site of the Italian Crystallographic Association: http://www.cristallografia.org/eng/detail.asp?IDN=276&IDSezione=50
