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About Nobel Prize |
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The Nobel
Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901
for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature
and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted
the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
founder of the Nobel Prize.
The Prize Winners are announced
in October every year. They receive their awards (a prize
amount, a gold medal and a diploma) on December 10, the
anniversary of Nobel's death. |
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Alfred Nobel
was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was
descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical
genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in
northern Europe.
Nobel invented dynamite in 1866
and later built up companies and laboratories in more
than 20 countries all over the world.
On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed
his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel
Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in
San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. |
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Alfred died
in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. In his last will
and testament, he wrote that much of his fortune was to
be used to give prizes to those who have done their best
for humanity in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology
or medicine, literature and peace.
In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes
in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature
were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden and the Peace
Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. |
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| The first
Prize Award Ceremony in 1901 at the Old Royal Academy
of Music in Stockholm. |
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| Hartmut Michel |
Hartmut Michel was born in the town of Ludwigsburg, Germany, in July 1948. In 1977 he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Wurzburg for work on the unique light energy transduction system of Halobacteria which is energized by a light absorbing membrane protein called bacteriorhodopsin.
Already trying to crystallize membrane proteins he switched to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry at Martinsried near Munich together with Professor Dieter Oesterhelt in 1979. He succeeded in crystallizing the photosynthetic reaction centre of purple photosynthetic bacteria. As a result of the success in crystallization the structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre could be determined by X-ray crystallography in a collaborative effort with Johann Deisenhofer from Robert Huber's department at Martinsried.
He is a member of many academies both in Germany and worldwide, among them are the National Academy of Science of the U.S. and the Chinese Academy of Science. He serves on several important advisory boards like the German Science Council.
Since 1987 he has been a member of Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. In 1988 at the age of 40, he, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" with Robert Huber and Johann Deisenhofer. He is one of the youngest Nobel Laureates.
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