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Burton
Richter (SLAC) and Samuel C. C. Ting (MIT)shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their
pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." (Logbook page from J/Psi particle
discovery experiment.) (Pictured: Burton Richter at SLAC in 1976)
Burton Richter Nobel Prize organization interview video |
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Richard E. Taylor (SLAC),
Jerome I. Friedman (MIT), and Henry W. Kendall
(MIT) shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on
protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in
particle physics." (Pictured: Richard Taylor (top), Group at Nobel Ceremony in Stockholm in 1990, with Friedman, Kendall and
Taylor in front row)
Richard E. Taylor Nobel Prize organization interview video |
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Martin L. Perl won the 1995 Nobel
Prize "for the discovery of the tau lepton." (Logbook
page from the tau lepton discovery experiment.) (Pictured: Perl at Nobel Press Conference, October 1995)
Martin Perl Nobel Prize organization interview video |
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Roger Kornberg won the 2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his studies of the molecular basis of
eukaryotic transcription" (determining how DNA's genetic
blueprint is read and used to direct the process of protein
manufacture). A significant portion of his research was
carried out at the
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). (Pictured: April 2001 issue of
Science with RNA polymerase on the cover.) Roger Kornberg Nobel Prize organization interview video |
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Yoichiro Nambu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL) Makoto Kobayashi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan) and Toshihide Maskawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan) share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of broken symmetries detected -- exactly as previously predicted by the Nobel laureates -- at both Babar (SLAC) and at Belle (KEK) in 2001. (Pictured: From left David Hitlin (Caltech), Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto U.), Makoto Kobayashi (KEK), and Jonathan Dorfan (Stanford U./SLAC)) |
| Ada Yonath shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ""for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome," landmark work that had some of its early foundation in studies at SSRL. |
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The SSRL SPEAR Storage Ring has been the site of the discoveries which led to the award of the 1976 and 1995 prizes in physics, and of the 2006, 2009 and 2012 prizes in chemistry. |
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Brian Kobilka MD, professor and chair of molecular and
cellular physiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, won the
2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work
on G-protein-coupled receptors. Kobilka and his colleagues worked mostly at the Argonne National
Laboratory Synchrotron, but they also used SLAC's
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) in the mid 1990s and early 2000s to develop techniques for determining
the structure of protein receptors.
Kobilka Nobel Prize organization interview transcript |
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Dr. Frances H. Arnold (CalTech) was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work on the directed evolution of enzymes. Structural investigations on enzymes and diffaction data collection conducted at SSRL have resulted in the addition of dozens of Protein Data Bank entries and publications, as well as more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemical substances and production of renewable fuels. |
