Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Can any Japanese get a Nobel award in 2013?

iPS cell
Shinya Yamanaka
Last year, a Japanese scientist, Shinya Yamanaka got the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent (iPS cell)" with Sir John B. Gurdon. And yesterday, James E. Rothman, Randy W. Scheckman and Thomas C. Südhof got the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells. 

And François Englert and Peter W. Higgs got the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 today  "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles".

The Nobel will announce the Nobel Prize in Chemistry tomorrow. Akira Fujishima known for "Honda-Fujishima effect" of the photocatalyst and Susumu Kitagawa known in the development of porous metal complex, they has been raised as a candidate from Japan. I can't wait to know who will win the prize. I hope a Japanese scientist can get the prize!

Thank you!

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