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American immunologist and microbiologist J Michael Bishop, who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology, will be among the five Nobel laureates attending the three-day long Nobel Prize Series- India 2018 beginning from
February 1.
Five Nobel laureates -- Christiane Nusslein Volhard, J Michael Bishop, Richard J Roberts, Serge Haroch and Tomas Lindahl -- will be attending the event.
Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said, “The event is aimed at generating scientific temperament among students by educational upgradation. It is mainly to focus on the importance of science, in order to inspire young students to pursue education and career in science for innovation and scientific growth.”
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard: Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 for experiments that aimed to identify genes involved in the development of (fruit fly) embryos. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus studied the development of fruit flies and, around 1980, succeeded in identifying and classifying the 15 genes that direct the cells to form a
new fly.
J Michael Bishop: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 was awarded jointly to J Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus ‘for their discovery of the cellular origin of retoviral oncogenes’. The growth, division and death of living cells are regulated by their genes. If these functions are out of their balance, tumours can form. One reason for this may be the incorporation of virus genes into the genes of host cells.
Richard J Roberts: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 was awarded jointly to Richard J Roberts and Phillip A Sharp “for their discoveries of split genes”. In 1977 Richard Roberts and Phillip Sharp both successfully demonstrated how RNA can be divided up into introns and exons, after which the exons can be joined together. This can occur in different ways, giving a gene the potential to form a number of different proteins.
Serge Haroche: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded to Serge Haroch for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”, a study of the particle of light, the photon. He has been able to capture photons using another kind of trap “ two mirrors which they can bounce between. This device allowed Serge Haroche to study the photons by passing atoms through the traps.
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