2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Peter Agre (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, US) “for the discovery of water channels” in cell membranes and half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US) for “structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels” in cells. You can visit the Nobel e-museum to read the full text of the press release.
Nobel Prizes in Chemistry|Pictures of Laureates