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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 presentation speech and illustrated presentation are now available on the Nobel e-Museum site. Still photos of John Fenn, Koichi Tanaka and Kurt Wüthrich accepting the award are also on the site and streaming video of the Nobel Lectures will be available later in the week.
Asahi Shimbun Online: Koshiba, Tanaka give Nobel lectures
The Japan Times: Nobel Laureate Defends His Research
Reuters: Nobel Committee Defends Chemistry Prize to Japanese Engineer
The Straits Times (Singapore): Uproar over Nobel award for Japanese chemist
Times (UK) Online: Nobel Prize for Chemistry ‘given to wrong man’
ABCNEWS.com: Nobel Winners Give Advice to Scientists
Chemical & Engineering News: Winning Ways – Nobel Prize-winning techniques made mass spec and NMR amenable to biological molecules
Richmond.com: Fenn Meets with Swedish Ambassador
Asahi Shimbun Interview with Koichi Tanaka: Give engineers the attention they deserve
The International Mass Spectrometry Society (IMSS) Web site has been updated. Take a look and note that abstracts for the 2003 Conference in Edinburgh are due February 1, 2003.
The 15th Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry, “Ion Activation in Chemistry and Biochemistry: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Applications,” will be held January 24 – 28, 2003, at Sanibel Island, Florida.
The 2003 Lake Arrowhead Conference on Ion Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry will be held January 17–19, 2003 at the UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead, California.
Japan’s Newest Star: A Chemist Christian Science Monitor 11/4/2002 Sunday, the emperor awarded Nobel laureate Koichi Tanaka Japan’s highest academic honor.
This just in the e-mail box: Bruker Daltonics will hold a grand opening of its new headquarters for customer support, research and development and manufacturing, at 40 Manning Road, Billerica, MA on November 15th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In addition to comments by top company executives, key products such as the Ultraflex TOF/TOF, …
The Japan Times Online: Tanaka to share Nobel knowhow at Kyoto University
The Virginia Commonwealth University Web site has audio, video clips and photos from the October 9 press conference with John Fenn following the Nobel Prize announcement.
An interview with Dr. Ruedi Aebersold of the of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle is available in text format on the Bio.com site. There is also text and audio for a panel discussion on Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics with Ken Standing, Scot Weinberger, and Don Hunt that was held September 20, 2001.
Agilent now has an AP-MALDI Source for the Agilent 1100 Series LC/MSD Trap SL ion trap mass spectrometer.