Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFrom: unicami@googlegroups.com [mailto:unicami@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rafik S
Sent: 07 October, 2008 22:03 PM
To: unicami
Subject: [UNICAM-I] Nobel Prize week
Dear Unicam group,
The Nobel Foundation announced two of six prizes today with the remaining four to be announced in a staggered fashion over the next few days to ensure that each cause gets the attention it deserves.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 went to two Japanese and one American. Yoichiro Nambu, a US citizen of oriental origin, will be awarded half of the money for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics." Born in 1921, Nambu works at the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago in the Obama state of Illinois, USA.
The two Japanese who will share the other half of the prize are Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. Both based in Japan, Kobayashi works at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba. He was born in 1944. His compatriot Maskawa is four years older and works at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Kyoto. The Nobel Prize givers said the men are being rewarded "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
The total money for a Nobel Prize is usually US$1 million, but most recipients will acknowledge that the prestige of becoming a Nobel Laureate is far greater than the money received.
The other Nobel Prize announced was the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 which went to a cervical cancer researcher and two AIDS researchers.
Germany's Harald zur Hausen will receive half of the prize money "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer." The 72-year-old works at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.
"For their discovery of Human Immunodeficiency Virus" better known by its acronym HIV, the two French citizens Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier will each receive a quarter of the prize money but the full prestige of being a Nobel Laureate. Born in 1947, Barré-Sinoussi works at the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur
Paris, France while the 76-year-old Montagnier dedicates his time to the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention
Paris, France.
The names of the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry will be announced during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The announcement will be webcast live at Nobelprize.org. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced on Wednesday, October 8, 11:45 a.m. CET (at the earliest).
The names of the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Literature will be announced during a press conference at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 9, 1:00 p.m. CET.
The names of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates will be announced during a press conference at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, October 10, 11:00 a.m. CET.
The names of the 2008 Laureates in Economics will be announced during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced on Monday, October 15, 1:00 p.m. CET (at the earliest).
Rafik R Shaikh
PhD fellow
Dept. of Chemistry,
University of Camerino, Italy
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