Duke gets its first home-grown Nobel Prize Winner (Chemistry)!!

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<p>This one has long been coming and much deserved. Congratulations to Dr. Lefkowitz and go Blue Devils!</p>

<p>AFP:</a> US pair share chemistry Nobel for cell receptors</p>

<p>Duke</a> professor, former student share Nobel Prize in chemistry :: WRAL.com</p>

<p>The real cool thing here is that Dr. Lefkowitz shares the Nobel Honor in Chemistry this year with his former student Dr. Brian Kobilka who was also at Duke in the 1980s as a Postdoc before moving on to Stanford.</p>

<p>This is just the beginning though. Duke is entering a Golden Age where the brilliant undergraduates/graduate students who have studied at this school in addition to the recent faculty hires Duke has made with its ascent in academia in the 1980s are finally starting to bear fruit.</p>

<p>Expect to see some former Duke undergrads and grads in the Nobel announcements in the coming decade. This is such a special time to study at this amazing university. :)</p>

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<p>Cool! It is truly a great thing!</p>

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<p>I’m surprised that it wasn’t the medicine/physiology Nobel given the impact that the discovery of GPCRs have on everything from signal transduction to pharmacology. But a Nobel is a Nobel and I suppose cloning/iPS cells are also pretty influential stuff.</p>

<p>But yes, congratulations to Dr. Lefkowitz and the other winners. Both discoveries are richly deserving of Nobels unlike the Nobel peace prize this year…</p>