Nobel Prizes and Nature's Surprises by Erling Norrby

By Erling Norrby

Each yr the Nobel Prizes within the traditional sciences demonstrate remarkable discoveries. New milestones within the relentless boost of technological know-how are pointed out. the expansion of information and its evolution should be researched within the Nobel records the place nominations are stored mystery for fifty years after the awards were made. They characterize a treasure for real-time evaluate of technology. Norrby's prior publication, Nobel Prizes and lifestyles Sciences (2010) tested the original archival files until eventually 1959.

The current ebook takes us as much as 1962, surveying various unbelievable discoveries. All prizes in immunology are reviewed. Their impression on our capability to manage infectious illnesses and transplant organs are highlighted. The Nobel yr 1962 is outstanding in spotting the main significant boost in biology on account that Darwin in 1859 offered his conception of evolution. This was once the dramatic discovery of the double-helix constitution of DNA by means of Watson and Crick in 1953. The period of molecular biology had started. Its explosive improvement keeps into the present.

Contents:

  • A Magician of Virology from Australia
  • A Divided Nobel Prize and a brand new period in Immunology
  • More Nobel Prizes in Immunology
  • Immunity, Infections and Transplantations
  • Transgressing Borders in technological know-how and Scenes of Life
  • Making feel of Hearing
  • Unraveling the Complexity of Protein Folding
  • “It's So appealing, you spot, So Beautiful”
  • Coda

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