Love at first smell--the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

A Nobel Nose: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

On December 10, 2004, the anniversary of industrialist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel’s death, the eponymous prize in Physiology or Medicine bequeathed by his prescient will was awarded to Linda Buck and Richard Axel for their seminal work in understanding olfaction. It is the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work reported in the decade of the 1990s, a relatively short time ago ...

The Nobel Prize and mainstream medicine.

A recent gathering of clinicians was asked: “Who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?”. The silence was telling. The revelation that it went to two US researchers for “their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system” was greeted with an incredulous “Is that so?”. “A Nobel Prize on the nose!” was one mischievous rejoinder. Obviously, the Nobel P...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging.

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Yellow fever and Max Theiler: the only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine

In 1951, Max Theiler of the Rockefeller Foundation received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever--a discovery first reported in the JEM 70 years ago. This was the first, and so far the only, Nobel Prize given for the development of a virus vaccine. Recently released Nobel archives now reveal how the advances in the yellow fever...