title: E pluribus tres: the 2009 nobel prize in chemistry.
abstract: This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates a multitude of research areas, making the difficult selection of those most responsible for providing atomic details of the nanomachine that makes proteins according to genetic instructions. The Ribosome and RNA polymerase (recognized in 2006) structures highlight a puzzling asymmetry at the origins of biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, CB 7260, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA. Electronic address: carter@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Charles W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D009613:Nobel Prize