This Month in History
July 1, 1929: Gerald Edelman, born on July 1, 1929, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies.
July 1, 1941: Alfred Gilman, born on July 1, 1941, won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.
July 2, 1946: Richard Axel, born on July 2, 1946, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
July 5, 1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser, born July 5, 1888, won a Nobel Prize for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers.
July 5, 1891: John H. Northrop, born on July 5, 1891, won a Nobel Prize for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form.
July 6, 1903: Hugo Theorell, born on July 6, 1903, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes.
July 9, 1900: July 9, 1900 was Victor Hamburger's birthday. He made many important contributions to developmental biology in his 101 years, including the stage series of the chicken embryo which is eponymously called the Hamburger Hamilton stage series.
July 15, 1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield, born on July 15, 1921, won a Nobel Prize for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix.
July 19, 1921: Rosalyn Yalow, born on July 19, 1921, won a Nobel Prize for her discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.
July 20, 1897: Tadeus Rechstein, born July 20, 1897, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
July 23, 1906: Vladimir Prelog, born on July 23, 1906, won a Nobel Prize for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.
July 31, 1918: Paul Boyer, born on July 31, 1918, won a Nobel Prize for his elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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