Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize is awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economic sciences. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
13 LMB scientists have been awarded Nobel Prizes for primary scientific research and pioneering techniques for molecular biology.
2009
VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN
(jointly with Tom Steitz & Ada Yonath)
‘for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome’
Chemistry Prize
2002
SYDNEY BRENNER & BOB HORVITZ & JOHN SULSTON
‘for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.’
Physiology or Medicine Prize
1997
JOHN WALKER
(jointly with Paul Boyer & Jens Skou)
‘for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).’
Chemistry Prize
1984
CÉSAR MILSTEIN & GEORGES KÖHLER
(jointly with Niels Jerne)
‘for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.’
Physiology or Medicine Prize
1982
AARON KLUG
‘for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.’
Chemistry Prize
1980
FRED SANGER
(jointly with Walter Gilbert)
‘for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.’
Chemistry Prize
1962
FRANCIS CRICK & JAMES WATSON
(jointly with Maurice Wilkins)
‘for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.’
Physiology or Medicine Prize
1962
MAX PERUTZ & JOHN KENDREW
‘for their studies of the structures of globular proteins.’
Chemistry Prize
1958
FRED SANGER
‘for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin’
Chemistry Prize
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A number of LMB Alumni have also received Nobel Prizes (LMB dates in italics):
| 2009 |
Tom Steitz (Chemistry) Postdoctoral Fellow 1967-1970 |
| 2009 |
Elizabeth Blackburn (Physiology or Medicine) PhD Student 1971-1974 |
| 2008 |
Martin Chalfie (Chemistry) Postdoctoral Staff 1977-1982 |
| 2006 |
Andrew Fire (Physiology or Medicine) Postdoctoral Fellow 1983-1986 |
| 2006 |
Roger Kornberg (Chemistry) Postdoctoral Visitor 1972-1975 |
| 1993 |
Richard Roberts (Physiology or Medicine) Visitor 1970, 1978-1979 |
| 1993 |
Michael Smith (Chemistry) Postdoctoral Visitor 1975-1976 |
| 1989 |
Sidney Altman (Chemistry) Postdoctoral Visitor 1969-1971 |
Achievements