The Chemistry of Alexander Borodin
Two American scientists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday. Something about "G-protein-coupled receptors." It's all very mysterious and important and hard to understand. If only Alexander Borodin was still alive, he could translate for us. Borodin was perhaps the only professional chemist and composer. He never won a Nobel Prize, but did have an important chemical reaction named for him. History remembers him more for his music, though. We'll hear his Symphony No. 2, from a concert in Amsterdam.