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Nobel Laureates of The University of Texas System
The University of Texas System is proud to be home to seven distinguished Nobel laureates:
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Brown and Joseph
L. Goldstein, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
Nobel Prize in in Physiology or Medicine, 1985
Brown and Goldstein were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning "the regulation of cholesterol metabolism." Brown and Goldstein discovered the basic mechanism of cholesterol metabolism that led to the development of today's cholesterol-lowering drugs, which are saving lives.
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| Johann
Deisenhofer, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1988
Deisenhofer received the Nobel Prize along with Robert Huber, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany, and Hartmut Michel, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre. Deisenhofer's work is considered a milestone in structural biology. His research using X-ray crystallography reveal in three-dimensional detail the structure of protein in the membrane of cells, atom by atom. Understanding detailed structure makes possible the development of new drugs.
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| Alfred
G. Gilman, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1994
The Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Gilman and Martin Rodbell of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Gilman's discovery of G proteins is leading to the development of drugs that precisely target cellular malfunctions.
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| Alan G. MacDiarmid, UT Dallas, Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
2001
The Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Hideki Shirakawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan for the discovery that plastic can, after certain modifications, be made electrically conductive.
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| Ferid
Murad, UT Health Science Center at Houston, Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine, 1998
The Nobel Prize was presented jointly to Murad and pharmacologists Robert F. Furchgott (New York) and Louis J. Ignarro (Los Angeles) for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. This was the first discovery that a gas can act as a signal molecule in the organism.
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| Steven
Weinberg, UT Austin, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
Weinberg's Nobel Prize in physics was shared equally between Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University, and Abdus Salam, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy and Imperial College, Great Britain for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including the prediction of the weak neutral current.
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