Linda Brown Buck was born on January 29, 1947, in Seattle, Washington. She was the daughter of an Electrical Engineer and stay at home mom. Her mother’s love for word puzzles and her father’s interest in inventing and building things aspired her to be a Scientist. She received her undergraduate education at the University of Washington with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and microbiology. She decided to major in psychology, thinking that she would become a psychotherapist. Over time, her interests changed and she stumbled upon a course in immunology, which she found fascinating and pursued a career as biologist. She earned her Ph.D. in immunology in 1980 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
She at first worked with Benvenuto Pernis on immunology examine, and later joined Richard Axel in his investigation of the sensory system of an ocean snail. Buck then set out to comprehend the workings of the olfactory framework. In spite of the fact that it had been built up that people and different warm blooded animals were fit for recognizing somewhere in the range of 10,000 unmistakable scents, the hidden systems of this procedure remained a mystery.Through the span of quite a long while, Buck revealed a vast collection of genes that are related to olfactory receptor cells. The cells, which are …show more content…
She and her fellow researchers pieced together a portrait of how the brain's olfactory bulb functioned. In 2004, Buck and Axel were named co-recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system." Working as a postdoctoral fellow in Axel's laboratory at Columbia University, she put in 15 hour days for several years before she and Axel found precisely what they were looking for—a family of some 1,000 genes that encode odor receptors located in the lining of the
She at first worked with Benvenuto Pernis on immunology examine, and later joined Richard Axel in his investigation of the sensory system of an ocean snail. Buck then set out to comprehend the workings of the olfactory framework. In spite of the fact that it had been built up that people and different warm blooded animals were fit for recognizing somewhere in the range of 10,000 unmistakable scents, the hidden systems of this procedure remained a mystery.Through the span of quite a long while, Buck revealed a vast collection of genes that are related to olfactory receptor cells. The cells, which are …show more content…
She and her fellow researchers pieced together a portrait of how the brain's olfactory bulb functioned. In 2004, Buck and Axel were named co-recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system." Working as a postdoctoral fellow in Axel's laboratory at Columbia University, she put in 15 hour days for several years before she and Axel found precisely what they were looking for—a family of some 1,000 genes that encode odor receptors located in the lining of the