Unraveling the Sense of Smell (Nobel Lecture)
Angewandte Chemie International EditionPublished 20 September 2005
Linda B. Buck
Citations235
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I was born in 1947 in Seattle, Washington, a city surrounded by mountains, forests, and the sea, where I learned to appreciate music and beauty from my mother and my father taught me how to use power tools and build things.
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A sense of occasion: Around 20 years after the start of their pioneering studies on the function of the nose and brain in odor perception, R. Axel and L. Buck have received the 2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. The picture shows schematically the coding of different odors in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and olfactory bulb (OB).
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