2008 Nobel prize predictions

Chemistry

chemistry

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"for his development and application of fluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function "

ROGER Y. TSIEN, Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA; also Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, ESI TOPICSGairdner Award, Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2002, Max Delbrueck Medal 2002 , The 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine
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"for transformational research on nanowires, nanomaterials, and their applications "

CHARLES M. LIEBER , Mark Hyman, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA , 2001 Feynman Prize in NanotechnologyThe 2003 World Technology Summit & Awards
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"for his development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and other methods of 'living' polymerization "

KRZYSZTOF (KRIS) MATYJASZEWSKI , J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA • ESI TOPICS
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CITATION LAUREATES IN CHEMISTRY: STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE

2002-2005 ADRIAAN BAX; K. C. NICOLAOU; GEORGE M. WHITESIDES AND SEIJI SHINKAI AND J. FRASER STODDART

2006 GERALD R. CRABTREE AND STUART L. SCHREIBER; TOBIN J. MARKS; DAVID A. EVANS AND STEVEN V. LEY

2007 BARRY M. TROST; DIETER SEEBACH; SAMUEL J. DANISHEFSKY

 

 

Economics

economics

"for their contributions to dynamic econometric models"

LARS P. HANSEN, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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THOMAS J. SARGENT, William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA USA

and

CHRISTOPHER A. SIMS , Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking, Department of Economics, Princeton Univeristy, Princeton, NJ USA

 


"for his research on public economics, including taxation, social security, health economics and many other topics"

MARTIN S. FELDSTEIN, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA; President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA USA

 


"for their publications on property rights and their contributions to the theory of the firm"

ARMEN A. ALCHIAN, Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA

and

HAROLD DEMSETZ, Arthur Andersen UCLA Alumni Emeritus Professor of Business Economics, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA

 


CITATION LAUREATES IN ECONOMICS STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE

2002-2005 ROBERT J. BARRO; EUGENE F. FAMA AND KENNETH R. FRENCH; PAUL MICHEAL ROMER; RICHARD H. THALER

2006 JAGDISH N. BHAGWATI AND AVINASH K. DIXIT AND PAUL KRUGMAN; DALE W. JORGENSON; OLIVER D. HART AND BENGT R. HOLMSTROM AND OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON

2007 ELHANAN HELPMAN AND GENE M. GROSSMAN; JEAN TIROLE; ROBERT B. WILSON AND PAUL R. MILGROM

 

Physics

physics

"for their discovery and analysis of graphene"

ANDRE K. GEIM, F.R.S., Langworthy Research professor, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics. and Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK • Mott MedalEurophysics prize
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KOSTYA NOVOSELOV, Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK • Europhysics prize

 


"for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe"

VERA C. RUBIN, Senior Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute for Science, Washington, D.C. USA • James Craig Watson MedalWinner of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

 


"for their related discoveries of, respectively, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals"

SIR ROGER PENROSE , O.M., F.R.S., Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, UK • Copley Medal recipientQuasicrystalsThe 1988 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
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DAN SHECHTMAN, Phillip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Technion • Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa, Israel; and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA • The 1999 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics

 


CITATION LAUREATES IN PHYSICS: STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE

2002-2005 MICHAEL B. GREEN and JOHN H. SCHWARZ and EDWARD WITTEN, YOSHINORI TOKURA; SHUJI NAKAMURA

2006 ALAN H. GUTH AND ANDRE LINDE and PAUL J. STEINHARDT; EMMANUEL DESURVIRE and MASATAKE NAKAZAWA and DAVID N. PAYNE

2007 MARTIN J. REES; SUMIO IIJIMA; ARTHUR B. MCDONALD

Physiology or Medicine

physiology or medicine

"for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity"

SHIZUO AKIRA, Professor, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan • Akira called the world's most cited scientist by NATUREESI TOPICS PRESSRobert Koch Stiftung2007 Milstein Award Winner
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BRUCE A. BEUTLER, Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA • ESI TOPICSLaureates des Prix de l'Acadamie des sciences en 2006
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JULES A. HOFFMANN, President, French Academy of Sciences, Paris, France Robert Koch Stiftung


""FOR THEIR DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF microRNAs (miRNAs) IN GENE REGULATION"

VICTOR R. AMBROS, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA USA • Gairdner awardFranklin award Lasker Foundation Award winner

and

GARY RUVKUN, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, both Boston, MA USA • Gairdner awardFranklin award Lasker Foundation Award winner


"for their contributions to clinical medicine and epidemiology through the development and application of meta-analysis"

RORY COLLINS, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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SIR RICHARD PETO, FRS, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK • Winner of the King Faisal International Prize
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CITATION LAUREATES IN MEDICINE: STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE

2002-2005 MICHAEL J. BERRIDGE; ALFRED G. KNUDSEN, JR. AND BERT VOGELSTEIN AND ROBERT A. WEINBERG; FRANCIS S. COLLINS AND ERIC S. LANDER AND J. CRAIG VENTER

2006 PIERRE CHAMBON AND RONALD M. EVANS AND ELWOOD V. JENSEN; SIR ALEC J. JEFFREYS

2007 FRED H. GAGE; JOAN MASSAGUE; R. JOHN ELLIS AND F. ULRICH HARTL AND ARTHUR HORWICH