Nobel Laureate Blobel to Give First Medicine Prize Lecture Live Online

The first live Webcasts of the Nobel Prize lectures will take place on Wed., Dec. 8, 1999. This year’s laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D., of The Rockefeller University, will present his lecture, “Protein Targeting.”

DATE: Wed., Dec. 8, 1999 TIME: 8:50 a.m. EST (2:50 p.m. Central European Time) 
PLACE: On the web at http://www.nobel.se/broadcast

Other Nobel week events on the web include the lectures in physics, by Martinus J.G. Veltman, Ph.D., and Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Ph.D., which will be Webcast at 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. EST, respectively, on Wed., Dec. 8. On Fri., Dec. 10, the Prize Award Ceremony itself will be Webcast live at 10:30 a.m. EST (4:30 p.m. Central European Time) from the Stockholm Concert Hall.

All of these events can be viewed at http://www.nobel.se/broadcast.

They will also be available on the Nobel Foundation ( http://www.nobel.se) a few days after the Webcasts. Internet users will need the Real Player plug-in, available as a free download on the Nobel site, to watch the Webcasts.

Click here for more information on protein targeting and translocation:http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/proteintarget.html