Today's molecule is an easy one. The trivial name will do since it's very well known but if you can supply the correct chemical name that would be good.As usual, there's a connection between Monday's molecule and this Wednesday's Nobel Laureate(s). This one is very straightforward. The reward (free lunch) goes to the person who correctly identifies both the molecule and the Nobel Laureate(s). Previous free lunch winners are ineligible for one month from the time they first collected the prize. There are no ineligible candidates for this Wednesday's reward.
If I'm not too wrong about this this is guanosine diphosphate. Hermann Emil Fischer got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 for the work on sugar and purine synthesis. Guanine is a purine.
ReplyDeleteOr could it be Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell, who got the Nobel for their discovery of G-proteins, which bind GDP/GTP?
ReplyDeletewindy says,
ReplyDeleteOr could it be Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell, who got the Nobel for their discovery of G-proteins, which bind GDP/GTP?
That's right! You get a free lunch. Come to my office on Thursday at noon. RSVP by tomorrow.
Thanks! but I'm afraid I'll have to take a rain check on that :)
ReplyDeleteIf you are ever in Sweden or Finland, I can buy the lunch. Tomorrow is the 300th birthday of Linnaeus, by the way!