Alfred Nobel spent a great deal of time traveling to and from factories and business meetings. In his suitcase, he carried silverware for eating, writing tools and books to read.
One of the industrial projects Alfred Nobel was involved in during the 1890s was the Svea Velocipede, a multi-geared bicycle developed by Fredrik and Birger Ljungström. It was designed so that the pedals moved in an up-and-down motion instead of rotating.
The model shows the structure of hemoglobin, which was mapped by Max Perutz.
A haemoglobin molecule consists of around ten thousand atoms. In this model, each ball represents an amino acid. The molecule consists of four chains of amino acids. There is one haeme group associated with each chain. The haeme groups are represented by pink balls in the model. At the haeme groups, clefts are formed. These clefts enable the haemoglobin in the blood to transport energising oxygen to the muscles of the body.
The model was acquired by the Nobel Prize Museum on the advice of Max Perutz in 2000.
This photograph is one of thousands of images that Max Perutz used to map the structure of the hemoglobin molecule. The image shows diffraction patterns caused by x-rays passing through a crystal of hemoglobin molecules taken from blood. The positions of the spots on a large number of X-ray photographs and extensive calculations help determine the molecular structure.
The photograph was presented to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2000 by Max Perutz.
The X-ray camera was used by Max Perutz and John Kendrew in their research on the structure of the proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin.
The camera was invented by mineralogist M. J. Buerger in the early 1940s. On its X-ray diffraction photographs the spots are arranged at the corners of a three¬dimensional lattice which is the reciprocal of the real lattice. These photographs were more straightforward to interpret than the ones taken with other types of camera used before.
The precession camera moves the crystal about one of its axes like a spinning top. Max Perutz and John Kendrew used it together with a home-built X-ray tube with a rotating anode that gave a beam ten times more intense than any commercial tube. Thanks to these instruments they were better equipped for protein crystallography than any other laboratory in the world; this contributed decisively to their solution of the first protein structures.
The camera was presented to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2000 by Max Perutz.
The 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt. Karlfeldt, who had been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, had died a few months before the prize was awarded. Since 1974, Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.
The Nobel Prize diploma was created by the artist Berta Svensson-Piehl, who described the diploma as follows:
“Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s poetry was like a deeply-rooted, fruit-bearing tree, with a fresh spring at its foot. The figure is a symbol of the art of poetry, a Fridolin with his golden lyre. At his feet lies a cornucopia with Flora and Pomona. The deer a symbol of the listening audience. The laurel wreath symbolises the Nobel Prize, the golden corn sheaf bowing down to the earth and the figure pointing upwards to the clouds signify that the prize was awarded after the poet’s death.”
The diploma was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Erik Axel Karlfeldt's family in 2000.
The 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt. Karlfeldt, who had been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, had died a few months before the prize was awarded. Still, a Nobel Prize medal was made. Since 1974, Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.
The medal was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Erik Axel Karlfeldt's family in 2000.
