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Explore the advances that earned this year's crop of Nobelists one of the world's most famous prizes--and in some cases, read about the prizewinning discoveries as chronicled by the researchers themselves in Scientific American. All told, 143 Nobelists have written 232 articles for the magazine.
October 13, 2009 |
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath first determined how to image the ribosome, then revealed how it does its protein-making work
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The three researchers paved the way for broadband telecommunications and the proliferation of digital photography
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak are recognized for research into telomeres--a key chromosome component--and the related enzyme telomerase
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Nobel Committee makes controversial choice by giving the nod to a sitting U.S. president in the midst of disarmament negotiations
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson win the prize for their analyses of cooperation and conflict in economic governance
One of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry describes the efforts that went into piercing the ribosome's secrets
One of the 2009 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry describes his efforts to decipher the structure of the ribosome--and confesses he would probably flunk an undergraduate chemistry exam
More than 130 Nobelists have written more than 200 articles for Scientific American. Here's a sampling, along with a look at the prizes themselves
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for studies of the protein-manufacturing ribosome, with implications for antibiotic development. Steve Mirsky reports
Jack Szostak, who just shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, talks about his latest research on the origin of life. And Scientific American editor George Musser talks to Jonathan Mostow, director of the new Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller Surrogates
The 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Harvard's Jack Szostak, Johns Hopkins's Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn at U.C. San Francisco, for their work on telomeres and telomerase. Steve Mirsky reports
The first commercial test of light-wave telephone service is under way in Chicago. The signals are dispatched over glass fibers in pulses generated by tiny solid-state light sources [Authored in 1977 by W. S. Boyle, a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics]
An unusual enzyme called telomerase acts on parts of chromosomes known as telomeres. The enzyme has recently been found in many human tumors and is being eyed as a new target for cancer therapy [Authored in 1996 by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, two co-recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]
Fresh clues hint at how the first living organisms arose from inanimate matter [Co-authored by Jack Szostak, a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]
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