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Nobel prize for chemistry: Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar win for DNA research
- dbcooper 11y agoThere's a nice discussion of this over at Derek Lowe's Pipeline blog: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/07/a-nobel-for-dna-repair http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/07/a-n...
- Steko 11y agoSigma Xi put up march madness style brackets [1] for the science prizes and the winners weren't even in the bracket for chem and medicine. If you look at the increasing time from work to the award of the prizes [2], and then the fact that chem bloggers handicapping the race aren't even familiar with the winners' work [3, comments] it becomes clear that science has just outgrown the 3 award areas. They should consider splitting the award into more sub-categories in most years. [1] https://www.sigmaxi.org/news/keyed-in/post/keyed-in/2015/09/29/october-madness-announcement-of-champions https://www.sigmaxi.org/news/keyed-in/post/keyed-in/2015/09/... [2] http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2012 http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/n... [3] http://blog.chembark.com/2015/10/07/predictions-for-the-2015-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ http://blog.chembark.com/2015/10/07/predictions-for-the-2015...
- dbcooper 11y agoI'd really like to see a prize for biology established. Then perhaps John Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham might finally get the chemistry prize, for developing Li-ion batteries.
- gozo 11y agoProbibly won't happen since it's based on a will. I think part of the prize allure is that it is limited and non-predictable.
- varelse 11y agoTomas Lindahl, uncle of Erik Lindahl, head GROMACS honcho... http://www.gromacs.org/ http://www.gromacs.org/