Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Linda Brown Buck

American biologist Linda Brown Buck credits her mother’s love for puzzles as what lit her love for science. The Seattle-born scientist became famous for her work on the olfactory receptors system which she worked on together with Richard Axel, a molecular biologist, investigator, and university professor.

Buck, a former postdoctoral research scientist, and her colleague Axel received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The professor at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has won several accolades in her line of biological work. She’s the recipient of Takasago, Lewis S. Rosenstiel, Gairdner Foundation International, and Fellowship of the Royal Society awards across the years.

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