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Article: Good Chemistry.(Kurt Wuthrich gets the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)(Interview)
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- January 1, 2003
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Kurt Wuthrich--professor of biophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA--was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on December 10, 2002. He received the honor for his research and development in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Wuthrich is the third Swiss in a row to receive the Nobel Prize in this field.
It's not everyday that you receive a phone call from the Swedish Royal Academy. And the news of the Nobel Prize came as a total surprise to Kurt Wuthrich. After his near miss in 1991, when the Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to an ETH colleague of his, Richard ...