Richard Axel Receives Nobel Prize; Acceptance Speech & Photos

On Friday, December 10, Richard Axel, M.D. of Columbia University Medical Center received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for clarifying how the olfactory system works. Dr. Buck was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in 1991.

For a transcript of Dr. Axel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, go to:

http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2004/axel-speech.html

For a photo of Dr. Axel receiving the Nobel Prize, go to:

http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2004/axel-award.html

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