Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Japan bags two Noble Prizes in 2015

From microbes to cosmos...

Satoshi Omura (Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan) shares one-half of Noble Prize for medicine with William C.Campbell (Drew University, Madison, NJ). 

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v2/n12/full/nrmicro1048.html#f2
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/06/satoshi-omura-from-night-school-teacher-to-nobel-winner/

Prize motivation:
"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"

 
 

The other half of Noble Prize for medicine goes to YouYouTu (China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China) of China


Prize motivation:
"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"

More here:
"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 6 Oct 2015.
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2015/index.html>

Prof. Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan) shares Noble Prize in Physics 2015 with Arthur B. McDonald (Queens Univer)sity, Sydney, Canada)


Prize motivation: "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
 

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