Nobel Prize 2016

 

Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize for Study of ‘Self-Eating’ Cells  (NYT, 10/3/2016)

“His work is some of the most elegant you can imagine for the knowledge and the beauty of how cells work.” -- Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, an autophagy researcher and co-director of the Institute for Aging at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

“I am not very competitive, so I always look for a new subject to study, even if it is not so popular. If you start from some sort of basic, new observation, you will have plenty to work on.” -- Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi.

3 Who Studied Unusual States of Matter Win Nobel Prize in Physics  (NYT, 10/4/2016)

"The key to their success was something called topology, a branch of mathematics focused on the fundamental shapes of things. At the Nobel news conference in Stockholm, Thors Hans Hansson, a member of the Nobel physics committee, tried to illustrate topology by holding up a cinnamon bun, a bagel and a pretzel.

To a topologist, he said, the only difference between them is the number of holes, as opposed to the characteristics an average person might notice, like saltiness or sweetness. There is no such thing as half a hole,..."

3 Makers of World’s Smallest Machines Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (NYT, 10/5/2016)

Colombia’s President, Juan Manuel Santos, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (NYT, 10/7/2016)

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Win Nobel in Economics for Work on Contracts (NYT, 10/10/2016)

Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (NYT, 10/13/2016)

“His lyricism is exquisite; his concerns and subjects are demonstrably timeless; and few poets of any era have seen their work bear more influence.” -- Bill Wyman, in a Op-Ed essay in The New York Times