Current Events: Three Win Nobel for Ribosome Research
Click here to read a short article from the NY Times about 3 chemists who won the Noble Prize for their research on ribosomes! From left, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England; Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University; and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Isreal.
The trio are pretty amazing to get a nobel prize and to get such a big prize.
ReplyDeleteThis is cool. I like how they contributed their research for antibotics, so it helps everybody!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. But why did they get it? Were they the only ones to do that specific topic?
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link!
Basically what everyone else said, awesome!
ReplyDeleteI mean, not everybody gets a nobel prize.
Michael N. 7I
that is so cool! but what did they actually find out about ribsomes?
ReplyDeleteI think that the Nobel Prize this year was awarded for better research than last year. This discovery about how the cell could create proteins from DNA is truly amazing. Last year's fluorescent proteins didn't have much to do with life.
ReplyDeleteFun Fact!
ReplyDeleteWhen the committee called to inform Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,
he said, "You have a really good Scandinavian accent, but thanks for the prank call."
If you don't believe me look on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8294421.stm
Ahh Man... Got the BONUS on the test wrong... Still awesome to read about though...
ReplyDeleteElla
Oh! Obama won the Nobel peace prize...
ReplyDeleteWhoa, really cool, i cant wait to learn more about ribosomes
ReplyDeleteif obama didnt win the peace prize greg mortenson from 3 cups of tea (we all had to read that book this summer) would have. my parents voted 4 obama and i like him, but i would rather have greg mortenson win...wat about u ppl?
ReplyDeleteHey Radhika i agree with you!!!
ReplyDeletewhat Greg mortenson did was incredible. It just goes to show that one person can make a huge difference in the world.
-Peter Freitag
I completely agree with what Radhika and Peter said!! Greg Mortenson is amazing. Imagine building schools for people!! That is really awesome!! Sort of like what my sister in college did. She helped build homes in New Orleans.
ReplyDelete-Jiaming Lin 7B
What exactly is MRC, my dad does cell research but I couldn't get him on his phone.
ReplyDeleteAlessandro7I
How do u pronounce the Indian guys name???
ReplyDeleteAlessandro7I
wow i think thats really cool i wonder what they first thought when they found out they won.
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