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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...

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:

http://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/109

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.