Sunday, September 14, 2008

Nobel prize in Medicine 1995

Nobel prize in medicine/physiology was awarded to Ed Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus in 1995 for their work on fruit flies.Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly, a little insect about 3mm long, of the kind that accumulates around spoiled fruit. It is also one of the most valuable of organisms in biological research, particularly in genetics and developmental biology. Drosophila has been used as a model organism for research for almost a century, and today, several thousand scientists are working on many different aspects of the fruit fly.This link gives you the pictures of these scientists and also a little about the work that won them the award.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/illpres/
Want to win awards ? Want to create history ? Want to be of great utility to other living beings ? May be we all wish and do work at different levels leave some impressions by which we are remembered.Ask Sylvia is doing great work but may be she would not recive any such award but I value her work much and m y heart has immense respect for this great lady.

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