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His prize was :
> for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.
Including virus structure, such as tobacco mosaic virus:
92 yo, so I searched and here it is: "Winning a Nobel prize adds nearly two years to your lifespan - and it's not because of the cash that goes with it.
Research from Warwick University reveals that the status alone conferred on a scientist by the world's most famous prize is enough to prolong his life (only male laureates and contenders were studied because women tend to live longer)." https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/jan/17/highereduc...
Do the effects of two Nobel prizes compound? One data point says yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger
What an incredibly annoying website, popups, auto-playing videos, loaders that cause the page to bob up and down for a good 5 seconds. Yuck.