Linda Buck, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine
On Oct. 4, 2004, the Nobel Assembly announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Richard Axel at Columbia University and Linda B. Buck at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center “for their discoveries of “odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.”
Buck joined the center in 2002 after 11 years as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
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Source: The Nobel Foundation
Credit: Photo: Courtesy of Fred Hutch.
