Today's molecule may seem very simple but be careful. Pay close attention to the structure before you venture a guess. You need to give as complete a name as possible.There's an indirect connection between this molecule and Wednesday's Nobel Laureate(s). The Nobel Prize winner(s) didn't know about this particular structure but its effects were detected.
The reward goes to the person who correctly identifies the molecule and the Nobel Laureate(s). Previous winners are ineligible for one month from the time they first collected the prize. There are two ineligible candidates for this week's reward. The prize is a free lunch at the Faculty Club.
Send your guess to Sandwalk (sandwalk(at)bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca) and I'll pick the first email message that correctly identifies the molecule and the Nobel Laureate(s). Correct responses will be posted tomorrow along with the time that the message was received on my server. This way I may select multiple winners if several people get it right. This one is easy. Get your response in quickly.
UPDATE: The molecule is triiodothyronine (2-amino-3- [4- (4-hydroxy-3-iodophenoxy)-3,5-diiodophenyl] propanoic
acid). We have a winner.
This week's winner is Alex Ling who sent in the correct name of the molecule and the Noble Laureate (Emil Theodor Kocher). His email message arrived at 6:38 pm. There were four other people who got it right but their answers arrived more than three hours later.
ReplyDeleteLots of people got the correct molecule but there were several different Nobel Laureates proposed. Most of those Nobel Laureates would have been well aware of the the structure of thyroxine and triiodothyronine so they didn't meet the criterion mentioned in the posting.