In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000 about 65.4% of Nobel Prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background. [1 ] Here is a non exhaustive list of some of the prize winners who publicly identified…
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. [1 ] He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he…
In 1955 Christian de Duve discovered previously unknown organelles in the cell, lysosomes. These have important functions in decomposing different types of materials, such as bacteria and parts of cells that have worn out.
Christian Anfinsen studied the enzyme ribonuclease, which divides RNA into smaller components. In 1961, Anfinsen proved that the sequence of amino acids, in itself, determines the way the chain folds itself and that no additional genetic…
Jens Christian Skou (8. října 1918, Lemvig, Dánsko – 28. května 2018, Aarhus [1 ]) byl dánský lékař a biochemik, který v roce 1997 obdržel společně s J. E. Walkerem a P. D. Boyerem Nobelovu cenu [2 ] za objev enzymu zvaného sodíko…