2008 Nobel Prize winners

Are you interested in learning more about the work of the Nobel Prize winners? Here is some information about the 2008 Nobel Laureates along with some of their most highly-cited articles from Web of Science.

Physiology or Medicine

Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”

Advanced Information from the Nobel Prize site.

Papillomaviruses causing cancer: Evasion from host-cell control in early events in carcinogenesis
zur Hausen H
JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   Volume: 92   Issue: 9   Pages: 690-698    MAY 3 2000

Papillomaviruses and cancer: From basic studies to clinical application
zur Hausen H
NATURE REVIEWS CANCER   Volume: 2   Issue: 5   Pages: 342-350    MAY 2002

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
BARRESINOUSSI F, CHERMANN JC, REY F, et al.
SCIENCE   Volume: 220   Issue: 4599   Pages: 868-871    1983

Chemistry

Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”

Scientific Background from the Nobel Prize site.

Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea
SHIMOMURA O, JOHNSON FH, SAIGA Y
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY   Volume: 59   Issue: 3   Pages: 223-&    1962

Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression
CHALFIE M, TU Y, EUSKIRCHEN G, et al.
SCIENCE   Volume: 263   Issue: 5148   Pages: 802-805    FEB 11 1994

The green fluorescent protein
Tsien RY
ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY   Volume: 67   Pages: 509-544   1998

Physics

Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”

Scientific Background from the Nobel Prize site.

Dynamical model of elementary particles based on an analogy with superconductivity. I. 1
NAMBU Y, JONALASINIO G
PHYSICAL REVIEW   Volume: 122   Issue: 1   Pages: 345-&    1961

Dynamical model of elementary particles based on an analogy with superconductivity. 2.
NAMBU Y, JONALASINIO G
PHYSICAL REVIEW  Volume: 124   Issue: 1   Pages: 246-&   1961

CP-violation in the renormalizable theory of weak interaction
KOBAYASH.M, MASKAWA T
PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   Volume: 49   Issue: 2   Pages: 652-657    1973

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