{"id":32092,"date":"2017-10-04T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=32092"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:08:30","slug":"nobel-prize-chemistry-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nobel-prize-chemistry-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32093 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 4th October, 2017 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017 to Jacques Dubochet , Switzerland, Joachim Frank, USA and Richard Henderson, UK.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are awarded for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Prize amount:<\/strong> 9 million Swedish krona, to be shared equally between the Laureates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About their work<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We may soon have detailed images of life\u2019s complex machineries in atomic resolution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This method has moved biochemistry into a new era.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Electron microscopes were long believed to only be suitable for imaging dead matter, because the powerful electron beam destroys biological material.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in 1990, Richard Henderson succeeded in using an electron microscope to generate a three-dimensional image of a protein at atomic resolution. This breakthrough proved the technology\u2019s potential.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joachim Frank made the technology generally applicable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between 1975 and 1986 he developed an image processing method in which the electron microscope\u2019s fuzzy twodimensional images are analysed and merged to reveal a sharp three-dimensional structure.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jacques Dubochet added water to electron microscopy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liquid water evaporates in the electron microscope\u2019s vacuum, which makes the biomolecules collapse.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early 1980s, Dubochet succeeded in vitrifying water \u2013 he cooled water so rapidly that it solidified in its liquid form around a biological sample, allowing the biomolecules to retain their natural shape even in a vacuum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.<br \/>\nAwarded to 178 Nobel Laureates since 1901.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1 person, Frederick Sanger, has been awarded the Chemistry Prize twice, in 1958 and in 1980.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">35 years was the age of the youngest Chemistry Laureate ever, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Joliot, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2017\/press.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2017\/press.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4th October, 2017 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017 to Jacques Dubochet , Switzerland, Joachim Frank, USA and Richard Henderson, UK. They are awarded for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. Prize amount: 9 million Swedish krona, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1087],"tags":[2617,2529],"class_list":["post-32092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah","category-intne","tag-awards-honors-en","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}