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Structural Biology related Nobel Prizes


The Recipient(s)
2009: Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
2006: Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg Studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
2003: Chemistry(1/2) Roderick MacKinnon Structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
2002: Chemistry(1/2) Kurt Wüthrich Development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution [Wüthrich].
1997: Chemistry(1/4) John E. Walker Elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
1991: Chemistry Richard R. Ernst Contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
1988: Chemistry Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel Determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre
1982: Chemistry Aaron Klug Development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
1972: Chemistry(1/2) Christian B. Anfinsen Work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
1964: Chemistry Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances
1962: Medicine Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material
1962: Chemistry Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew Studies of the structures of globular proteins
1946: Chemistry(1/2) James Batcheller Sumner Discovery that enzymes can be crystallized

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