Americans win Nobel prize for mapping odor sense
Two Americans, Richard Axel of Columbia University and Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, received the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying odor receptors and explaining how the nose and brain recognize about 10 000 odors. The award honors foundational insight into the sense of smell and its brain wiring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nobelprize.org
Richard Axel
Columbia University
Linda B. Buck
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle
Nobel Assembly
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
Geeran Hansson
Buck
Axel
Americans Axel Buck win Nobel Prize in medicine
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded Monday to Richard Axel and Linda B Buck for uncovering odorant receptor proteins and detailing the mechanism of smell. Previous laureates include Lauterbur and Mansfield in 2003 and Brenner Sulston Horvitz Hartwell Hunt Nurse in earlier years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Peter Mansfield
Paul C. Lauterbur
Also Mentioned on This Page
Norway
Nobel Medicine
United States
Sydney Brenner
John E. Sulston
Britain
H. Robert Horvitz
Leland H. Hartwell
R. Timothy Hunt
Sir Paul M. Nurse
Arvid Carlsson
Sweden
Paul Greengard
Eric R Kandel
Nobel Foundation
Aiken
Aiken Standard
Aiken Area
Missy
Anne Klein
le Suit
Kasper
Dillard's
Whiskey Roan S
Aiken Mall