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Luca Turin

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Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a Lebanese American biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in the sense of smell, perfumery, and the fragrance industry. [1]

48 relations: Acetophenone, Aroma compound, Beirut, Benzaldehyde, Biophysics, Chandler Burr, Chantilly, Virginia, Chief technology officer, DARPA, Deuterium, Drosophila, Electron transfer, Electronic nose, Gas chromatography, HEK 293 cells, Henri Korn, Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy, Isotope, Isotopomers, Journal of Neurophysiology, Lebanon, Leslie B. Vosshall, London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Muscone, Musk, National Institutes of Health, Nature Neuroscience, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitter, North Carolina, Olfaction, Olfactory receptor, Pasteur Institute, Physical Review Letters, Physiology, PLOS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Quantum biology, Richard Lounsbery Award, Switzerland, The Tech (newspaper), Turin, United Nations, University College London, University of Ulm, Vibration theory of olfaction.

Acetophenone

Acetophenone is the organic compound with the formula C6H5C(O)CH3 (also represented by the pseudoelement symbols PhAc or BzMe).

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Aroma compound

An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance, or flavor, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Benzaldehyde

Benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO) is an organic compound consisting of a benzene ring with a formyl substituent.

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Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies the approaches and methods of physics to study biological systems.

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Chandler Burr

Chandler Burr (born December 30, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.

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Chantilly, Virginia

Chantilly is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Chief technology officer

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO), sometimes known as a Chief Technical Officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

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DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

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Deuterium

Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1).

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Drosophila

Drosophila is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit.

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Electron transfer

Electron transfer (ET) occurs when an electron relocates from an atom or molecule to another such chemical entity.

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Electronic nose

An electronic nose is a device intended to detect odors or flavors.

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Gas chromatography

Gas chromatography (GC) is a common type of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition.

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HEK 293 cells

Human embryonic kidney cells 293, also often referred to as HEK 293, HEK-293, 293 cells, or less precisely as HEK cells, are a specific cell line originally derived from human embryonic kidney cells grown in tissue culture.

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Henri Korn

Henri Korn is a neuroscientist with the Pasteur Institute.

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Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy

Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) is an experimental tool for studying the vibrations of molecular adsorbates on metal oxides.

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Isotope

Isotopes are variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number.

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Isotopomers

Isotopomers or isotopic isomers are isomers with isotopic atoms, having the same number of each isotope of each element but differing in their positions.

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Journal of Neurophysiology

The Journal of Neurophysiology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1938.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (لبنان; Lebanese pronunciation:; Liban), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies.

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Leslie B. Vosshall

Leslie Birgit Vosshall, Ph.D., (born July 5, 1965) is an American neurobiologist and currently an HHMI Investigator and the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Muscone

Muscone is an organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of musk.

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Musk

Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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Nature Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience is a monthly scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group.

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ; lit.: "New Journal of Zurich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zurich.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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Neurotransmitter

Neurotransmitters are endogenous chemicals that enable neurotransmission.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Olfaction

Olfaction is a chemoreception that forms the sense of smell.

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Olfactory receptor

Olfactory receptors (ORs), also known as odorant receptors, are expressed in the cell membranes of olfactory receptor neurons and are responsible for the detection of odorants (i.e., compounds that have an odor) which give rise to the sense of smell.

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Pasteur Institute

The Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines.

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Physical Review Letters

Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.

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Quantum biology

Quantum biology refers to applications of quantum mechanics and theoretical chemistry to biological objects and problems.

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Richard Lounsbery Award

The Richard Lounsbery Award is given to American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, in recognition of "extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine." The Award alternates between French and American scientists, and is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in alternating years to a scientist from the other country.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Tech (newspaper)

The Tech, first published on November 16, 1881, is the campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University of Ulm

Ulm University (Universität Ulm) is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Vibration theory of olfaction

The Vibration theory of smell proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to its vibrational frequency in the infrared range.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Turin

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