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Unraveling the Sense of Smell (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Buck Linda B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200501120
Subject(s) - sense (electronics) , cognitive science , philosophy , epistemology , art , psychology , chemistry
A sense of occasion : Around 20 years after the start of their pioneering studies on the function of the nose and brain in odor perception, R. Axel and L. Buck have received the 2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. The picture shows schematically the coding of different odors in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and olfactory bulb (OB).