The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy. The fundamental importance of oxygen has been understood for centuries, but how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen has long been unknown.
William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza discovered how cells can sense and adapt to changing oxygen availability. They identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen.
The seminal discoveries by this year’s Nobel Laureates revealed the mechanism for one of life’s most essential adaptive processes. They established the basis for our understanding of how oxygen levels affect cellular metabolism and physiological function. Their discoveries have also paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases.

Arts said:

Very dodgy artwork NP goes to this guy.

dv said:

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy. The fundamental importance of oxygen has been understood for centuries, but how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen has long been unknown.
William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza discovered how cells can sense and adapt to changing oxygen availability. They identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen.

The seminal discoveries by this year’s Nobel Laureates revealed the mechanism for one of life’s most essential adaptive processes. They established the basis for our understanding of how oxygen levels affect cellular metabolism and physiological function. Their discoveries have also paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases.

Nice work!

Now if someone will do the exact same thing for carbon dioxide.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their work in furthering our understanding of the universe.

In a ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday, one half of the prize was awarded to Peebles for “theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system,” tweeted the Nobel committee.
“The discoveries have forever changed our conceptions of the world.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/world/nobel-prize-physics-2019-intl/index.html

dv said:

and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system,” tweeted the Nobel committee.

wow.. they’re giving these things away as participation trophies these days

Dropbear said:

dv said:

and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system,” tweeted the Nobel committee.

wow.. they’re giving these things away as participation trophies these days

Solar type star, fine, but not in habitable zone.

I’m still waiting on a habitable planet at Alpha Centauri.

Dropbear said:

dv said:

and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system,” tweeted the Nobel committee.

wow.. they’re giving these things away as participation trophies these days

That’s what I thought.

I mean it’s a nice enough little discovery, but it’s just a matter of sitting at the end of the right telescope at the right time, isn’t it?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dropbear said:

dv said:

and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system,” tweeted the Nobel committee.

wow.. they’re giving these things away as participation trophies these days

That’s what I thought.

I mean it’s a nice enough little discovery, but it’s just a matter of sitting at the end of the right telescope at the right time, isn’t it?

You’ve got to be kidding.

That was Penzias and Wilson, 1978 Nobel Prize.

This is a lot more delicate.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/09/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-work-on-lithium-ion-batteries?CMP=soc_567

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries.

John B Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University will receive equal shares of the 9m Swedish kronor (£74o,000) prize, which was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday.

dv said:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/09/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-work-on-lithium-ion-batteries?CMP=soc_567

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries.

John B Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University will receive equal shares of the 9m Swedish kronor (£74o,000) prize, which was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday.

Glad to see Mr Goodenough was not bound by the rules of nominative determinism.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and today lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father also functioned as school librarian. In the library she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. After studies in psychology at the University of Warsaw she made her debut as a fiction writer 1993 with ‘Podróz ludzi Księgi’ (‘The Journey of the Book-People’), set in 17th century France and Spain where the characters are in search of a mysterious book in the Pyrenees. The book was well received and was awarded the Polish Publisher’s Prize for the best debut 1993-94. Still, her real breakthrough came with her third novel ‘Prawiek i inne czasy’ 1996 (‘Primeval and Other Times’, 2010). This subtly built family saga in several succeeding generations is set in a mythical place with strong symbolical impact, while, at the same time, being full of realistic and vivid details. It starts in the year 1914 and deals with the Polish history of the 20th century, and Tokarczuk has claimed that the narrative was a personal attempt to come to terms with the national image of the past. The novel is an excellent example of new Polish literature after 1989, resisting moral judgement and unwilling to represent the conscience of the nation. Instead it shows a remarkable gift of imagination with a high degree of artistic sophistication.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Peter Handke was born 1942 in a village named Griffen, located in the region Kärnten in southern Austria. This was also the birthplace of his mother Maria, who belonged to the Slovenian minority. His father was a German soldier that he would not meet before reaching adulthood himself. Instead, he and his siblings grew up with his mother and her new husband, Bruno Handke. After a period in severely war-damaged Berlin the family returned and settled down in Griffen. After finishing village school he was admitted to a Christian high school in the city of Klagenfurt. From 1961 he studied law at the University of Graz but broke off his studies a few years later when his debut novel ‘Die Hornissen’ (1966) was published. It is an experimental “double fiction” in which the main character is recollecting fragments of another, for the reader unknown, novel. Together with the play ‘Publikumsbeschimpfung’ (‘Offending the Audience’, 1969) – which was staged the same year and whose main concept is to have the actors insulting the audience simply for attending – he certainly set his mark on the literary scene. This mark hardly diminished after his description of contemporary German literature as suffering from “Beschreibungsimpotence” (description impotence) at the meeting of Gruppe 47 held in Princeton, USA. He made sure to distance himself from prevailing demands on community-oriented and political positions and instead found much of his own literary inspiration within the New Novel-movement in French literature (le Nouveau Roman).

well, bully for them :)

At 97, this year’s Chemistry Laureate John Goodenough becomes the oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize.
“He has been working in this field for many, many years, and he never retired. He’s still going to the lab every day, as far as I know, and making contributions to the community when it comes to battery science and battery development.
He is a really remarkable person, he is really burning for this field,” says Olof Ramström, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Arts said:

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and today lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father also functioned as school librarian. In the library she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. After studies in psychology at the University of Warsaw she made her debut as a fiction writer 1993 with ‘Podróz ludzi Księgi’ (‘The Journey of the Book-People’), set in 17th century France and Spain where the characters are in search of a mysterious book in the Pyrenees. The book was well received and was awarded the Polish Publisher’s Prize for the best debut 1993-94. Still, her real breakthrough came with her third novel ‘Prawiek i inne czasy’ 1996 (‘Primeval and Other Times’, 2010). This subtly built family saga in several succeeding generations is set in a mythical place with strong symbolical impact, while, at the same time, being full of realistic and vivid details. It starts in the year 1914 and deals with the Polish history of the 20th century, and Tokarczuk has claimed that the narrative was a personal attempt to come to terms with the national image of the past. The novel is an excellent example of new Polish literature after 1989, resisting moral judgement and unwilling to represent the conscience of the nation. Instead it shows a remarkable gift of imagination with a high degree of artistic sophistication.

And about 17 people have read it :)

The science prizes this year were for work that, shall we say, was easy to understand…

Hopefully it will be Trump’s year for the NPP

dv said:

The science prizes this year were for work that, shall we say, was easy to understand…

Unlike those for literature.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali the 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

dv said:

Hopefully it will be Trump’s year for the NPP

He’ll tweet that he declined the honour.

Arts said:

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali the 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Fair

the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow.. WR can begin pacing…

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

furious said:

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

Note that there is no Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize announcements are already complete, as they do one per day over a period of five days.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was set up in 1968 by the Swedish national bank.

dv said:

furious said:

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

Note that there is no Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize announcements are already complete, as they do one per day over a period of five days.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was set up in 1968 by the Swedish national bank.

Yep :)

dv said:

furious said:

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

Note that there is no Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize announcements are already complete, as they do one per day over a period of five days.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was set up in 1968 by the Swedish national bank.

I remember the threads on the old sssf about economics not being science. I’ve finally decided. Economics is not science.

Arts said:

the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow.. WR can begin pacing…

Can I point out that the prize for economic “sciences” is not a Nobel? Its actual title is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and it was established by the Sveriges Riksbank in 1968 to promote the idea that economics is a science, although it is awarded by the same committee that awards the Nobels. The prize comes from a fund donated to the Nobel Foundation by the Riksbank.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

furious said:

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

Note that there is no Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize announcements are already complete, as they do one per day over a period of five days.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was set up in 1968 by the Swedish national bank.

I remember the threads on the old sssf about economics not being science. I’ve finally decided. Economics is not science.

I suppose it is a soft science but it also seems to be a fashion. It appears to ebb and flow with global politics. Different Laureates of the Economics prize have held basically completely opposite positions.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

furious said:

• the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow..

They sure know how to drag these things out, it’s taking longer than a cricket world cup…

Note that there is no Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize announcements are already complete, as they do one per day over a period of five days.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was set up in 1968 by the Swedish national bank.

I remember the threads on the old sssf about economics not being science. I’ve finally decided. Economics is not science.

it’s not really a science.. we are in the midst of a conversation now on the uni forum as to whether criminology is a science.. it’s definitely not a hard science, but it uses scientific methods to establish theories, sometimes – like geomapping, but we can’t do true rct’s in a lot of it, because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half … what’s really interesting is the number of people who think science just means research.

ok.. I did say the prize.. not the Nobel prize… tough crowd..

Arts said:

because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half …

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

dv said:

Arts said:

because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half …

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

IKR especially since it’s for the greater good..

I was only banging on about it because furious was asking why they were dragging this out. I was countering: they aren’t. They’re done.

dv said:

Arts said:

because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half …

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

Isn’t it govt policy to treat half the babies well?

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

Arts said:

because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half …

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

Isn’t it govt policy to treat half the babies well?

zing

• I was only banging on about it because furious was asking why they were dragging this out. I was countering: they aren’t. They’re done.

Five prizes over five days is still dragging it out…

Arts said:

the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow.. WR can begin pacing…

Pfft… not even a real Nobel prize. They were going to give it to me but i declined*

• may not be true

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

the prize for economic sciences will be announced tomorrow.. WR can begin pacing…

Pfft… not even a real Nobel prize. They were going to give it to me but i declined*

• may not be true

I know what you mean. I didn’t need another one.
Oops, no. That was the Ig Nobel Prize.

furious said:

• I was only banging on about it because furious was asking why they were dragging this out. I was countering: they aren’t. They’re done.

Five prizes over five days is still dragging it out…

but what about the tension the drama the excitement the glory

furious said:

• I was only banging on about it because furious was asking why they were dragging this out. I was countering: they aren’t. They’re done.

Five prizes over five days is still dragging it out…

gotta allow the winners to savour in their own publicity for a day.

Arts said:

dv said:

Arts said:

because stupid ethics won’t let me take a bunch of babies and treat half of them well and neglect the other half …

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

IKR especially since it’s for the greater good..

We were just lamenting the absence of small children to play with Gracie. I wondered about hiring them from somewhere…..and what flavours would be available.

I might be doing too much quiet time with my sewing paraphernalia.

kii said:

Arts said:

dv said:

It’s outrageous that they are trying to interfere with your family life

IKR especially since it’s for the greater good..

We were just lamenting the absence of small children to play with Gracie. I wondered about hiring them from somewhere…..and what flavours would be available.

I might be doing too much quiet time with my sewing paraphernalia.

:)

the prize for economic ‘scientist’ goes to …

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer

Arts said:

the prize for economic ‘scientist’ goes to …

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer

Where’s Poiky when we need him?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

the prize for economic ‘scientist’ goes to …

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer

Where’s Poiky when we need him?

A Nobel for astrology, who’d a thought…

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

the prize for economic ‘scientist’ goes to …

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer

Where’s Poiky when we need him?

I don’t know where he is.
When he does have internet privileges he insists he only posts spasmodically because he’s got a new job.
He did post a photo once and in the background you could see someone stacking what appeared to be numberplates.

Experimental approach to alleviating world poverty? Im guessing their experiments didn’t quite work…

Bully for them.

Just once though, I’d love to hear a recipient of the prize express regret for having to share the award jointly with others rather than have it all themselves.

Arts said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/13/economist-who-slated-colleagues-work-is-tipped-for-nobel

party_pants said:

Bully for them.

Just once though, I’d love to hear a recipient of the prize express regret for having to share the award jointly with others rather than have it all themselves.

especially the peace prize

dv said:

party_pants said:

Bully for them.

Just once though, I’d love to hear a recipient of the prize express regret for having to share the award jointly with others rather than have it all themselves.

especially the peace prize

Might be a good creepy movie. Two Peace Prize finalists meet in a death match on a deserted jungle island, to sort out who is the actual winner.