Linda Buck and King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, at the Nobel Prize banquet ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden, 2004. She is responsible for groundbreaking work on the olfactory system in mammals. Before Buck's work, scientists had only surmised that the nose contained special receptors to identify smells. Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. Educated at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School, a teacher recorded in the yearbook that Linda … Linda Buck is a preeminent researcher in the science of sense perception. Linda B. Buck - Biography. Her father was an electrical engineer, her mother a homemaker: Linda was the second of their three daughters. She pursued the olfactory system from the nose to the olfactory bulb, a set of neurons in 2,000 spherical structures called glomeruli.Findings concerning the glomeruli were published in 1994. It was a banner year for Dr. Buck. Linda Brown Buck was born on January 29, 1947 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. Buck made clear for the first time how odors are perceived and identified.