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In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies for their work in discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells. [8] Evans was appointed president of Cardiff University and was inaugurated into that position on 23 November 2009 ...
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and ...
Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist.He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, [3] and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal ...
Sir Martin Evans, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-winning biologist for his work with stem cells; Lesley Fallowfield, Professor of Psycho-Oncology (1997–2001) Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger; C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of cimetidine
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life ...
Martin Evans – Nobel Prize for Medicine [6] 2007; Mahmoud Ezzamel – professorial fellow; Dimitra Fimi – writer; Brian J. Ford – Honorary fellow of Cardiff University (1986), honorary fellow of the Linnean Society, honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. John S. Fossey – Professor of synthetic chemistry at the University of ...