Nobel for AIDS virus discovery, finally

Discovery of GMR : Grunberg & Fert The Nobel Prize

Discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) (Nobel Lecture).

The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins

In the course of the 19th century, chemists and physiologists studying the composition of foods and the nutritional requirements of humans and animals found that our diets needed to include the complex nitrogenous compounds called "proteins" (that, with water, form the bulk of our lean tissues), together with fats, starch and sugars that all provide usable energy during their oxidation in the b...

Artificial Intelligence to Win the Nobel Prize and Beyond: Creating the Engine for Scientific Discovery

artificial intelligence can deliver? What pushes the human race forward? Our civilization has advanced largely by scientific discoveries and the application of such knowledge. Therefore, I propose the launch of a grand challenge to develop AI systems that can make significant scientific discoveries. As a field with great potential social impacts, and one that suffers particularly from informati...

100th anniversary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus.

The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize. Here, we describe the scientific career of Robert Koch, the discoverer of the etiologic agent of tuberculosis but also of those of anthrax, cholera and wound infections. Equally important, Koch developed the methodologies and concepts that made medical microbiology a scientific discipline. Despite great efforts, however, Ko...