Scents and Sensibility: A Molecular Logic of Olfactory Perception (Nobel Lecture)

A sense of occasion : Around 20 years after the start of their pioneering studies on the function of the nose and brain in odor perception, R. Axel and L. Buck have received the 2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. The picture shows schematically the coding of different odors in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and olfactory bulb (OB).