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Sport events urged to prove green credentials

This content was published on Oct 10, 2002 The Swiss Olympic Association and the Swiss Environment Agency have offered prize money of SFr50,000 for events which boost environmental protection and awareness. The Ecosport prize, launched in Bern on Thursday, will reward organisers who try to reduce the impact of traffic, economise on water and energy, and limit the amount of rubbish produced at…

Roche reports flat sales and surprise vitamins charge

This content was published on Oct 10, 2002 Roche also announced that it was putting aside unexpected new provisions to cover legal liabilities from price fixing at its vitamins division. In a statement from its Basel headquarters, Roche said that core sales were SFr19.27 billion, of which SFr13.903 billion were in the pharmaceuticals division and SFr5.367 billion in the diagnostics business. This is…

Chestnuts and wine

This content was published on Oct 10, 2002 Traditional chestnut dishes have begun making their back on restaurant menus, and if you choose to spend an Autumn day wandering through an ancient chestnut grove you are encouraged to gather as many as you like. The chestnut tree was first introduced to Ticino during Roman times and is called the poor man’s bread by…

A Nobel history

This content was published on Oct 10, 2002 Previously they were announced on the same day, but this was changed due to fears that it could lead to one of the prizes being overlooked. Prize founder Alfred Nobel stated that the chemistry prize should go to those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” and “shall have made the most important…

EU enlargement deepens Swiss isolation

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 Nevertheless, the Swiss government and business have welcomed the EU decision, seeing it as opening new avenues for Swiss businesses. “The well-established political and economic conditions set between Switzerland and the EU can now be expanded to new markets,” was the Swiss economics ministry’s response. All of Switzerland’s bilateral agreements – mainly on trade –…

Swiss scientist brings home chemistry prize

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 The Nobel committee said there would be “no modern pharmaceuticals” without the work of Wüthrich and two other joint recipients of the award. Wüthrich takes one half of the prestigious $1 million award, with the other half being divided equally between the United States scientist, John Fenn, and Japan’s Koichi Tanaka. The three scientists share…

More to sand than meets the eye

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 A special exhibition presents a fascinating and comprehensive look at what turns out to be an infinitely varied and interesting topic. From the desert to the seabed, its geology, zoology and physical properties, its role in some religious beliefs – in Tibet and among the Navajos of North America – and even as a plaything…

Wüthrich is seventh Swiss to win chemistry prize

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 swissinfo takes a look back at previous Swiss recipients of the award. The first Swiss to receive the prize was Alfred Werner (1866-1919), who collected the award in 1913 “in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules, by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new…

A distinguished career

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 His specialty is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for which he was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Born in 1938 in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich studied in Bern, and went on to do his PhD in inorganic chemistry 1964 at the University of Basel. Following postdoctoral studies at the renowned University of California at Berkeley,…

Swiss shares Nobel Prize for chemistry

This content was published on Oct 9, 2002 Wüthrich took one half of the prestigious award, with the other half being jointly shared by John Fenn of the US and Koichi Tanaka of Japan. The three were chosen for their research into biological macromolecules, such as proteins, which has led to a better understanding of the processes of life. The 64-year-old Wüthrich takes…

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