2 Americans, Israeli share Nobel Prize in chemistry
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 09:35
in Physics & Chemistry
They used X-ray crystallography to map the structure of a key cell component, a breakthrough that pharmaceutical companies are now using to make more effective antibiotics. Two Americans and an Israeli who used X-ray crystallography to map the precise structure of the ribosome, the cell's crucial protein-making factory, today won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.