Nobel
Laureates
Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes  Vergilius
Aeneid
Loosely translated "And they
who bettered life on earth by new found mastery."
(Word for word: inventions enhance life which is beautified through
art.)
EMBO membership includes some of the leading researchers in Europe. Forty-five members have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans (EMBO Member) and Oliver Smithies.
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Aaron Ciechanover (EMBO Member), Avram Hershko
(EMBO Member) and Irwin Rose received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry 2004 "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated
protein degradation"
Sydney Brenner (EMBO Member), H. Robert Horvitz and
John E. Sulston (EMBO Member) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine 2002 "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation
of organ development and programmed cell death".
Kurt Wüthrich (EMBO Member) received one half of the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry 2002 "for his development of nuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure
of biological macromolecules in solution".
Congratulations to all.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- EMBO Members
| 1959
|
Arthur
Kornberg |
(deceased 2007) |
| 1962 |
Francis
Harry Compton Crick |
(deceased 2004) |
| 1962 |
James Dewey
Watson
(Associate Member) |
|
| 1962 |
Maurice Wilkins |
(deceased 2004) |
| 1965
|
Francois
Jacob |
|
| 1968 |
Har Gobind
Khorana
(Associate Member) |
|
| 1974 |
Christian de Duve |
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| 1975 |
David Baltimore
(Associate Member) |
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| 1975 |
Renato Dulbecco |
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| 1978 |
Werner Arber |
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| 1978 |
Daniel
Nathans
(Associate Member) |
(deceased 1999) |
| 1984 |
Georges
J.F. Köhler |
(deceased 1995) |
| 1984 |
Cesar Milstein
|
(deceased 2002) |
| 1986 |
Rita Levi-Montalcini
|
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| 1987 |
Susumu
Tonegawa
(Associate Member) |
|
| 1989
|
Harold
E. Varmus
(Associate Member) |
|
| 1991 |
Erwin Neher |
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| 1991
|
Bert Sakmann |
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| 1992 |
Edmond H.Fischer |
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| 1993 |
Philip A. Sharp
(Associate Member) |
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| 1993 |
Richard J Roberts |
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| 1995 |
Christiane
Nüsslein-Volhard |
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| 1995 |
Eric F. Wieschaus
(Associate Member) |
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| 1996 |
Rolf M.
Zinkernagel |
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| 1999 |
Günter Blobel
(Associate Member) |
|
| 2001 |
Sir Paul
M. Nurse |
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| 2001 |
Sir Tim Hunt |
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| 2002 |
Sydney Brenner
|
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| 2002 |
Sir John E. Sulston |
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| 2007 |
Sir Martin J. Evans |
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
| 1958/1980 |
Frederick
Sanger |
|
| 1962
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Max Ferdinand
Perutz |
(deceased 2002) |
| 1962
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Sir John Cowdery
Kendrew |
(deceased 1997) |
|
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Manfred
Eigen |
|
| 1980
|
Paul Berg
(Associate Member) |
|
| 1982
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Sir Aaron Klug
|
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| 1988
|
Robert
Huber |
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| 1988 |
Michel Hartmut |
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| 1989
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Thomas
R. Cech (Associate Member) |
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| 1997
|
John E.
Walker |
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| 1997
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Jens C. Skou |
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| 2002
|
Kurt Wüthrich |
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2004 |
Aaron Ciechanover |
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| 2004 |
Avram Hershko |
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| 2006 |
Roger D. Kornberg
(Associate Member) |
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