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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