Nobel Highlights from Stanford Medicine
Ready for the Nobels? Warm up with this quiz on Stanford Medicine's laureates
Test your knowledge about the eight Stanford Medicine researchers who have been awarded a Nobel Prize in the medical school's 110-year history.
An early morning phone call, then an onslaught of cameras
Michael Levitt, PhD, handles the multitude of phone calls, emails, interviews and parties during his first day as a Nobel Prize winner.
Two scientists, two Nobel Prizes, one week
Structural biologist Michael Levitt, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and neuroscientist Thomas Südhof won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Find your passion, Nobel laureate tells graduates
Finding your passion is key to success, Brian Kobilka, MD, said during his speech June 15, 2013 at the School of Medicine commencement.
Amid ceremony and revelry, Kornberg and Fire awarded Nobel Prizes in Stockholm
2006 Nobel Prize winners: Roger Kornberg, PhD, (Chemistry) and Andrew Fire, PhD, (Physiology or Medicine).
Previous Winners
Eight Nobel Prize winners over the past six decades
Michael Levitt
Chemistry (2013)
Michael Levitt - Chemistry (2013) shared with Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."
Thomas Südhof
Physiology or Medicine (2013)
Thomas Südhof – Physiology or Medicine Medicine (2013) shared with James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of UC-Berkeley "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."
Brian Kobilka - Chemistry (2012) for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs.
Andrew Fire – Physiology or Medicine (2006) shared with Craig Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School for recognizing that certain RNA molecules can be used to turn off specific genes in animal cells.
Roger Kornberg - Chemistry (2006) for his work in understanding how DNA is converted into RNA, a process known as transcription.
Steven Chu - Physics (1997) shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."
Paul Berg - Chemistry (1980) for "his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA." Shared with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger who were recognized "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".
Arthur Kornberg – Physiology or Medicine (1959) shared with Severo Ochoa "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid." Kornberg died 2007.
