Nobel Prizes
In 2003, Roderick MacKinnon won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the structure of neuronal ion channel. His work was in part conducted at the NSLS. In 2009, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for imaging the ribosome with atomic resolution through their use of x-ray crystallography at the NSLS and other synchrotron light sources.
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