Monday, September 28, 2009
Announcing The 2009 Guess-A-Nobel Contest
Filed under: Medgadget Exclusive
Next Monday, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winner(s) of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the following two days, two more Nobels will be revealed: in Physics and in Chemistry. Because of the success of last year's inaugural Guess-A-Nobel Contest, we decided we'll repeat this event annually until there is no more science worthy of the prize. This year we're giving out three 8GB Apple iPod Touch devices to those who correctly guess in each of the three science categories. Because we profile a good deal of apps for the iPhone/Touch platform, we thought this might be a useful tool beside all the fun it can provide on the off time. Furthermore, if someone does manage to guess all three correctly, he or she will be getting the souped-up 64 GB version of the iPod device with all the trimmings.
Here are the rules of the game:
1. Anyone can enter by writing a comment to this post. Please make sure you leave your email address in the form so we can get in touch with you. Your entry will be invalid without a proper email.2. Identify either the scientist(s) or discoveries in Medicine, and/or Physics and/or Chemistry, for your chance to win an iPod.
3. If we have multiple people who guessed correctly, the winner in each category will be chosen randomly. The lucky person who guesses all three will automatically win.
4. If a winner lives outside the US, Canada, or EU, instead of sending the prize, we'll transfer an equivalent amount of ca$h via a PayPal account.
5. Deadline for entries is Midnight Pacific Standard Time on Saturday Oct. 3, 2009 AD
Good luck to all!
Flashback: The First Ever Guess-A-Nobel Contest (2008)...
UPDATE: Announcing Winners of Guess-A-Nobel 2009...
(104)
(1) Physiology or Medicine (Monday, Oct 5): James Rothman (Yale) and Randy Schekman (UC Berkeley) for their elucidation of the cellular vesicular transport system and protein trafficking pathways.
(2) Physics (Tuesday, Oct 6): John M. Kosterlitz (Brown) and David J. Thouless (UW Seattle) for their theoretical analysis of the so-called Kosterlitz–Thouless transition.
(3) Chemistry (Wednesday, Oct 7): Ulrich Hartl (Max Plack) and Arthur Horwich (Yale) for their discovery of molecular chaperones in protein folding.
Posted by: Ethan
on September 28, 2009 09:35 AM GMT
Chemistry: MICHAEL GRĔZEL
Physics: DAVID R. SMITH
Physiology or Medicine: ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN
Posted by: Andres
on September 28, 2009 10:03 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Stephen Simpson
Chemistry: Dr Pete Licence
Physics: Sergei Kopeikin
Posted by: ECP
on September 28, 2009 12:44 PM GMT
Phys/Med- Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, with possibly Jack Szostak for telomerase
Posted by: Beth
on September 28, 2009 01:07 PM GMT
Medicine: Weinberg/Knudson for tumor suppressors
Chemistry: Horwich for chaperones
Posted by:
on September 28, 2009 01:19 PM GMT
Physics: Mikheyev, Smirnov, and Wolfenstein
Posted by: JQD
on September 28, 2009 02:59 PM GMT
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Chemistry: Richard Lerner and Greg Winter
Medicine: Alfred Knudson, Robert Weinberg, Janet Rowley
Posted by: Elaine Zhang
on September 28, 2009 03:15 PM GMT
Chemistry: Benjamin List
Physics: Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Phy/Med: Seiji Ogawa
Posted by: Will S
on September 28, 2009 03:25 PM GMT
Chemistry: Jaqueline Barton
Physics: Peter Zoller & Ignacio Cirac
Physiology and/or Medicine: James Rothman & Randy Schekman
Posted by: Stephen
on September 28, 2009 04:18 PM GMT
Physiscs: Sumio Iijima (Japan), for his discovery of carbon nanotubes.
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel (Switzerland), for his contributions to research on alternative energy sources.
Physiology and Medicine: Ronald Evans (USA), for his contribution to the discovery of the nuclear receptor superfamily.
Posted by: Pablo
on September 28, 2009 04:34 PM GMT
Physiology & Medicine: Tom Jessell (Columbia Univ) for identifying transcription factor code in spinal cord development
Physics: Watt Webb (Cornell Univ) for many breakthroughs in biomedical imaging, including the two photon microscope (in that case, include Winfried Denk).
Chemistry: I'll double down on Watt Webb again for the same above.
Posted by: John
on September 28, 2009 04:48 PM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans & Elwood Jensen (discovery of nuclear hormone receptors)
Physics: Adam Riess & Saul Perlmutter (discovery of dark energy to confirm the accelerated expansion of the Universe)
Chemistry: Gilbert Stork & Samuel Danishefsky (novel organic reactions for the synthesis of complex molecules)
Posted by: MRL
on September 28, 2009 04:49 PM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Seiji Ogawa
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Posted by: BW
on September 28, 2009 04:56 PM GMT
Chemistry: Bernd Giese
Physics: Sheldon Schultz
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: nichole
on September 28, 2009 05:00 PM GMT
med: Clay Armstrong, Bertil Hille, Roderick MacKinnon
phys: Daniel Kleppner
chem: Richard Zare
Posted by: Nicolas Keller
on September 28, 2009 06:25 PM GMT
Physics: Anton Zeilinger
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Alfred Knudson, Robert Weinberg, Janet Rowley
Posted by: Ariel
on September 28, 2009 06:25 PM GMT
Want to have some fun? Google "Nobel Prize" See how many hits you get. Then google "Drapier Prize" the --see the empty page? Alfred Nobel was a chemical ENGINEER, yet the "Nobel Prize for Engineering" gets no recognition from the media. Fie!
Posted by: Chas, PE SE
on September 28, 2009 07:04 PM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Stephen Simpson
Physics: Daniel Kleppner
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Posted by: Mud
on September 28, 2009 07:45 PM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Physiology or Medicine : Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: Peter Jakubowicz
on September 28, 2009 07:57 PM GMT
Medicine: Nobuto Yamamoto for cancer immunology work
Posted by: Mike Schmidt
on September 28, 2009 08:43 PM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Pierre Chambon / Ron Evans / Elwood Jensen; for nuclear hormone receptors
Posted by: Matt
on September 28, 2009 09:17 PM GMT
Physics: Michael Berry (probably with Yakir Aharonov but we're only allowed one pick)
I don't know the other fields quite as well but here are some wild guesses:
Chem: Bernd Giese (and Jacqueline Barton and Gary Schuster)
Medicine: Seiji Ogawa
Posted by: Tortorific
on September 28, 2009 10:03 PM GMT
Chemistry : Michael Gratzel
Physics : Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Physiology/Medicine : Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak
Posted by: Nofa
on September 28, 2009 10:29 PM GMT
Medicine: Alfred Knudson, Robert Weinberg
Chemistry: Ulrich Hartl, Arthur Horwich
Physics: Peter Zoller, Ignacio Cirac
Posted by: Div
on September 28, 2009 11:45 PM GMT
Chemistry: Arthur Horwich
Physics: Michael Berry
Physiology/Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: Tatarize
on September 28, 2009 11:46 PM GMT
Chemistry: Arthur Horwich
Physics: Michael Berry
Physiology/Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: Tatarize
on September 28, 2009 11:58 PM GMT
Chemistry - Michael Gratzel
Physics - Michael Berry
Medicine - Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: Jparenti
on September 29, 2009 12:41 AM GMT
Medecine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their work on telomeres and telomerase
Physics: Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor for their discoveries of exo-planets
Chemistry: Jacqueline Barton, Bernd Giese and Gary Schuster for research into electron charge transfer in DNA
Posted by: Julien
on September 29, 2009 01:55 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Carol Greider
Chemistry: Benjamin List
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Posted by: Claudia
on September 29, 2009 05:53 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Manel Esteller and some other people working currently on epigenetics (either in cancer or in aging).
Posted by: Dídac López
on September 29, 2009 06:30 AM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Gregg Semenza (and/or) Peter Radcliffe, for their discovery of the HIF signaling pathway, the mechanism by which cells respond to low oxygen (hypoxia).
Posted by: Paul
on September 29, 2009 06:38 AM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Gregg Semenza (and/or) Peter Radcliffe, for their discovery of the HIF signaling pathway, the mechanism by which cells respond to low oxygen (hypoxia).
Posted by: Paul
on September 29, 2009 06:40 AM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Ralph Steinman for the discovery and characterization of dendritic cells.
Chemistry - Michael Gratzel
Physics - Michael Berry
Posted by: Brett
on September 29, 2009 07:49 AM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Ernest McCulloch and James Till for first identifying stem cells
Posted by: Mike
on September 29, 2009 07:57 AM GMT
Chemistry:
Gilbert Stork and Carlos Barbas
For the development of enamine chemistry
Posted by: Jorge
on September 29, 2009 08:00 AM GMT
how are people guessing Blackburn and not Szostak when the collaboration was Szostak's idea and he did at least half the work. Odd, unless you've only been reading Blackburn interviews.
For physiology and medicine I'm betting on Seiji Ogawa.
Chemistry Jackie Barton
Posted by: Janice
on September 29, 2009 11:54 AM GMT
Physiology: Giaccomo Rizzolatti.
Posted by: Per
on September 30, 2009 06:01 AM GMT
I'll go out on a limb and say Chemistry (or maybe Medicine and Physiology) will go to Harry Noller +(1 or 2 of Ada Yonath, Venke Ramakrishnan, and Tom Steitz) for studies of ribosome structure and function including determining the molecular structure of the ribosome.
Posted by: David
on September 30, 2009 07:27 AM GMT
Medicine - Elizabeth Blackburn
Chemistry - Michael Gratzel
Physics - Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Posted by: Espen
on September 30, 2009 10:31 AM GMT
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Posted by: Niek
on September 30, 2009 11:08 AM GMT
Physiology or medicine: Shinya Yamanaka
Physics: Sumio Iijima
Chemistry: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Posted by: Ryan
on September 30, 2009 11:11 AM GMT
Peace - Nicolas Sarkozy
Physics- Peter Higgs
Chemistry- Hartl and Horwich
Posted by: Larry H
on September 30, 2009 11:12 AM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Physio/Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak
Posted by: GaryG
on September 30, 2009 11:42 AM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Physio/Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak
Posted by: GaryG
on September 30, 2009 11:44 AM GMT
Phys/Medicine: Gage, Altman, Gould for adult neurogenesis
Posted by: jb
on September 30, 2009 12:14 PM GMT
Physiology / Medicine: James Rothman (Yale) and Randy Schekman (Berkeley)
Physics: Alan Guth (MIT) and Andrei Linde (Stanford)
Chemistry: Gilbert Stork (Columbia) and Samuel Danishefsky (MSKCC & Columbia)
Posted by: Ed
on September 30, 2009 01:07 PM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Robert Langer, for the development of "intelligent drugs" and tissue engineering.
Posted by: La lectora corrent
on September 30, 2009 04:10 PM GMT
med: Weinberg and Vogelstein
phys: Daniel Kleppner
chem: Richard Zare and WE Moerner
Posted by: Ben
on September 30, 2009 08:14 PM GMT
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Medicine: Weinberg and Vogelstein
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Posted by: Luis Avila
on September 30, 2009 09:37 PM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Grätzel
Medicine/Physiology: Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac
Posted by: Maria
on October 1, 2009 01:26 AM GMT
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak
Posted by: Albert Mundet
on October 1, 2009 01:34 AM GMT
Medicine/Phisiology: Robert Langer
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Daniel Kleppner
Posted by: InÊs Fonseca
on October 1, 2009 02:38 AM GMT
Physics: Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, and Anton Zeilinger, for their contributions to quantum information theory & quantum computation.
Posted by: jordimp
on October 1, 2009 03:18 AM GMT
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, Jack Szostak
Physics: Marc Kastner, Theodore Fulton
Chemistry:George Whitesides
Posted by: YZ
on October 1, 2009 04:50 AM GMT
Physiscs: Sumio Iijima (Japan)
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel (Switzerland)
Physiology and Medicine: Ronald Evans (USA)
Posted by: Vijay
on October 1, 2009 05:56 AM GMT
Physiscs: Sumio Iijima (Japan)
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel (Switzerland)
Physiology and Medicine: Ronald Evans (USA)
Posted by: Vijay
on October 1, 2009 05:58 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Chemistry: Michael Grätzel
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac
Posted by: Xavi
on October 1, 2009 05:59 AM GMT
Physiology/medicine: Per-Ingvar Brånemark for dental implantology
Posted by: Marcus
on October 1, 2009 07:03 AM GMT
Elizabeth Blackburn, Michael Gratzel, Peter Zoller.
Posted by: Laurel
on October 1, 2009 08:42 AM GMT
Physics: Cirac and Zoller - quantum computation
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel - optoelectronic materials research
Medicine: Blackburn and Greider-telomeres and telemorase enzyme research
Posted by: TomW
on October 1, 2009 08:48 AM GMT
Physics: Alain Aspect, David Wineland, and Anton Zeilinger for fundamental quantum physics experiments.
(Probably wishful thinking, but what the hell...)
Posted by: Chad Orzel
on October 1, 2009 09:00 AM GMT
Physics: Michael Berry
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Posted by: Murrad Kazalbash
on October 1, 2009 09:37 AM GMT
Physics: Dark Energy
Chemistry: Hartle/Horwich - Molecular Chaperones in protein folding
Phys/Med: McCulloch - discovery of stem cells
Posted by: ADB
on October 1, 2009 11:37 AM GMT
The rules state either scientists or discoveries, so I'm going to stick with discoveries and say:
Physiology or Medicine: telomerase
Physics: quantum topological and geometrical phases
Chemistry: structure of the ribosome
Posted by: Christina H
on October 1, 2009 12:06 PM GMT
Seiji ogawa-medicine
tom steitz -chemistry
Posted by: El
on October 1, 2009 12:46 PM GMT
Chemistry: MICHAEL GRÄTZEL
Physics: PETER ZOLLER
Medicine: JACK W. SZOSTAK
Posted by: Scott Harshman
on October 1, 2009 01:02 PM GMT
Physics: Adam Riess & Saul Perlmutter
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Robert Langer
Posted by: Dylan
on October 1, 2009 01:49 PM GMT
Physics: Adam Riess & Saul Perlmutter
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Robert Langer
Posted by: Dylan
on October 1, 2009 01:50 PM GMT
OGAWA, SEIJI will take the Nobel for Medicine/Physiology for non-invasive procedure. This is overdue !
Posted by: san
on October 1, 2009 02:12 PM GMT
Physiology/Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Posted by: Luke
on October 1, 2009 02:24 PM GMT
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Michaël Grätzel. His work in nanotechnology and optics is very impressive - and it has extremely important applications as well.
Nobel Prize in Physics: Negative refractive index metamaterials (David R. Smith, John Pendry, Sheldon Schultz)
Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine: Seiji Ogawa, for the extraodinarily cool FMRI technology.
Posted by: R Landa
on October 1, 2009 03:18 PM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac
Posted by: Tom Sidwell
on October 1, 2009 05:46 PM GMT
Chem: Ribosome high res structure/function
Med: Telomerase
Posted by: JKW
on October 1, 2009 06:23 PM GMT
Chemistry: Micha�l Gr�tzel
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Physics: Vera Rubin
Posted by: Ricardo Carvalho
on October 2, 2009 04:44 AM GMT
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn
Physics: Vera Rubin
Posted by: Ricardo Carvalho
on October 2, 2009 04:45 AM GMT
Physics: Aharonov and Berry
Chemistrty: Zare
Posted by: Misha Lemeshko
on October 2, 2009 06:02 AM GMT
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Chemistry: Richard Lerner and Greg Winter
Medicine: Alfred Knudson, Robert Weinberg, Janet Rowley
Posted by: Gordon
on October 2, 2009 06:34 AM GMT
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Michael Berry
Chemistry: Richard Lerner and Greg Winter
Medicine: Alfred Knudson, Robert Weinberg, Janet Rowley
Posted by: Gordon
on October 2, 2009 06:35 AM GMT
Gary Schuster, Jacqueline Barton and Bernd Giese for research into electron charge transfer in DNA
Posted by: JeJe
on October 2, 2009 08:05 AM GMT
Chemistry : Gary Schuster, Jacqueline Barton and Bernd Giese for research into electron charge transfer in DNA
Posted by: JeJe
on October 2, 2009 08:08 AM GMT
Medicine: SHINYA YAMANAKA, :creating embryonic-like stem cells from adult skin cells
Physics: SUMIO IIJIMA: Carbon Nano tubes
Chem: F. ULRICH HARTL, ARTHUR HORWICH: Protein folding
Posted by: Peter
on October 2, 2009 08:55 AM GMT
SHELDON SCHULTZ In Physics
MICHAEL GRÄTZEL In Chemistry
ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN In Medicine
Posted by: Michael
on October 2, 2009 04:07 PM GMT
Medicine: Discovery of fMRI to track changes in oxygen consumption in brains.
Chemistry: Richard Rosenberg (For his work at Argonne on Chirality)
Physics: Negative Refraction
Scoreboard.
Posted by: Andrew Jurgensmeier
on October 2, 2009 04:37 PM GMT
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and possibly Jack Szostak
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael V. Berry
Posted by: Adrienne
on October 2, 2009 06:38 PM GMT
Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and possibly Jack Szostak
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel
Physics: Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael V. Berry
Posted by: Adrienne
on October 2, 2009 06:39 PM GMT
Chemistry: Zare
Physics: Aharonov and Berry
Medicine: Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak
Posted by: David
on October 2, 2009 07:41 PM GMT
Medicine: Ronald Evans "for his discoveries concerning the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily"
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel "for his discoveries concerning energy transfer in mesoscopic materials"
Physics: Sumio Iijima "for his discoveries concerning carbon nanotubes"
Posted by: Josh
on October 2, 2009 11:54 PM GMT
medicine to Robert Roeder for eukaryotic transcription
chemistry to Robert Holton for total synthesis of taxol
physics to alan guth for cosmic inflation theory
Posted by: Odessa
on October 2, 2009 11:56 PM GMT
PHYSICS: Sheldon Schultz--metamaterials
MEDICINE: Robert Weinberg--tumor suppressor genes
CHEMISTRY: Arthur Horwich--chaperones
Posted by: Amanda
on October 2, 2009 11:58 PM GMT
chemistry nobel to tom steitz (go ribosomes!)
medicine nobel to randy scheckman (go vesicles!)
physics nobel to david payne (go erbium!)
Posted by: Rene
on October 2, 2009 11:59 PM GMT
Medicine: Janet Rowley, discovery of chromosomal translocations
Chemistry: George M. Whitesides, molecular self-assembly and nanotechnology
Physics: Juan Ignacio Cirac, quantum computing
Posted by: Teresa
on October 3, 2009 12:00 AM GMT
chemistry nobel to tom steitz (go ribosomes!)
medicine nobel to randy scheckman (go vesicles!)
physics nobel to david payne (go erbium!)
Posted by: Rene
on October 3, 2009 12:01 AM GMT
Chemistry- MICHAEL GRÄTZEL
Professor and Director, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Physics- PETER ZOLLER
Professor of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
Medicine- JACK W. SZOSTAK
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Posted by: Sunil
on October 3, 2009 08:37 AM GMT
medicine- ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN
physics- YAKIR AHARONOV
chemistry- JACQUELINE K. BARTON
Posted by: Ax
on October 3, 2009 08:42 AM GMT
Chemistry- BERND GIESE
Physics- SIR MICHAEL V. BERRY
Medicine- CAROL W. GREIDER
Posted by: sherchan
on October 3, 2009 08:47 AM GMT
Medicine - Elisabeth Blackburn
Physics - Peter Zoller
Chemistry - Michael Gratzel
Posted by: Alkibiades
on October 3, 2009 09:40 AM GMT
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Elisabeth Blackburn
Nobel Prize for Physics: Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
Nobel Price for Chemistry: Micahel Gratzel
Posted by: Angie
on October 3, 2009 11:18 AM GMT
Medicine: Till and McCulloch
Chemistry: Gratzel
Physics: Aharonov and Berry
Posted by: Ed
on October 3, 2009 11:53 AM GMT
Medicine: Giacomo Rizzolatti
Physics: Giorgio Parisi
Posted by: Claudio
on October 3, 2009 03:23 PM GMT
Medicine: Giacomo Rizzolatti
Physics: Giorgio Parisi
Posted by: Claudio
on October 3, 2009 03:24 PM GMT
Medicine: Giacomo Rizzolatti
Physics: Giorgio Parisi
Posted by: Claudio
on October 3, 2009 03:26 PM GMT
Medicine : Seiji Ogawa
Physics : Sumio Iijima
Chemistry : Micahel Gratzel
Posted by: Kanishka
on October 3, 2009 09:09 PM GMT
