By Francis Leroy

Celebrating a century of innovative contributions to our realizing of lifestyles, the realm, and the universe, this encyclopedic table reference strains the discoveries that earned approximately 500 distinct scientists Nobel honours within the parts of chemistry, physics and drugs. Preface; concerning the authors; desk of contents; The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry (1901 -- 2001); The Nobel Laureates in Physics (1901 -- 2001); The Nobel Laureates in medication (1901 -- 2001); desk: The Nobel Prize Laureates (1901-2001); Bibliography; photograph and representation credit; Index of Recipients' Names; topic Index

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Finally, in 1960, Wendell Stanley determined the complete amino acid sequence of the tobacco mosaic virus's coat protein. C NH2 Urea cycle.

Harold Urey registered at Montana State University in 1914, obtaining his bachelor's degree in zoology in 1917. At the end of World War One, he returned to Montana to teach chemistry, but in 1921 he resumed his studies at Berkeley under the famous American chemist Gilbert N. Lewis. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Copenhagen under the direction of Niels Bohr, he returned to the States in 1925. Until 1929, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, but left this Structure of a deuterium atom.

The Joliot-Curie's discovery was the first step in extraordinary developments that are continuing today. In 1937, Joliot became Professor at the Collège de France, where he directed the construction of the first cyclotron in Western Europe. Developed Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie by the American Ernest Lawrence (1939 Nobel Prize for Physics) in 1930, a cyclotron is a particle accelerator. It is the instrument of choice for producing radioisotopes, so it is easy to understand Joliot's interest in this technique.

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