ESRF Users win Nobel Prize
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03-11-2009 11:23
Ada Yonath and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan both ESRF long-term users, have been awarded the Nobel Prize of Chemistry 2009. Media in several countries reported.
The local Grenoble newspaper covered the story on the front page:
Dauphine Libéré (article in French)
The French national newspaper "Liberation" sheds light on the discovery in its science blog
The leading Spanish daily newspaper also mentions that much of the work was performed at ESRF beamlines:
The professional Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR) provides a more detailed account:
Article in JSR November 2009 on Chemistry Nobel Prize
Last but not least, the image gallery of the Nobel Foundation includes some nice photos of Ada Yonath and her team taken at the ESRF:
Ada E. Yonath photo gallery on nobelprize.org
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