Premios Nobel de Química (Relevantes en el área de Bioquímica)

28/10/19, 14:17

Aquí encontrarás algunos científicos que han sido galardonados con el premio Nobel de Química. No son todos. He elegido a aquellos cuya aportación se relaciona más con el campo de la Bioquímica. www.nobel.se

Herman Fisher (1902)
In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
Eduard Buchner (1907)
For his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.
Marie Curie née Sklodovska (1911)
In recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element
Linus Pauling (1954)
For his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
Melvin Calvin (1961)
For his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
Max Perutz y John Kendrew (1962)
For their studies of the structures of globular proteins 
Dorothy C. Hodgkin (1964)
For her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
Luis Leloir (1970)
For his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates
Christian Anfinsen (1972)
For his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation/ 
Peter Mitchell (1978)
For his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory.
Frederik Sanger (1958 y 1980)
For his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin (1958)For his contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids (1980)
Sidney Altman y Thomas R. Cech (1989)
For their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker & Jens C. Skou (1997)
For their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)” and the other half to Jens C. Skou ”for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase.
Peter Agre y Roderick MacKinnon (2003)
For discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
Roger Kornberg (2006)
For his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription 
Osamu Shimomur,  Martin Chalfie& Roger Y. Tsien (2008)
For the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP 
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Thomas A. Steitz& Ada E. Yonath (2009)
For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Robert J. LefkowitzBrian K. Kobilka (2012)
For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell & William E. Moerner (2014)
For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich & Aziz Sancar (2015)
For mechanistic studies of DNA repair
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart & Bernard L. Feringa (2016)
For the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank & Richard Henderson (2017)
For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
Frances H. Arnold (2018)
For the directed evolution of enzymes
George P. Smith & Sir Gregory P. Winter (2018)
For the phage display of peptides and antibodies