Today, Tuesday, and WEDNESDAY will be the prize announcements for natural sciences!
Can't wait for Wednesday's chemistry prize... ;) I'll be sure to blog about it either on the day itself or on Friday!
GO TEAM NMR!!! Hehe, for obvious reasons... ;)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Super duper pleased with last year's Chem prizes going out to 3 pioneers in C-C bond formation. Palladium-catalyzed synthetic reactions ROCK! BIG TIME! I am fortunate enough to have succeeded in carrying out a Suzuki cross-coupling back in my NRP days.. Its been four years already! Aaaahh... ♥
Anyway, keep watching this space for announcements... This will be an exciting three days for scientists everywhere, but do note that other prizes are
Update: (17:47 03/10/11)
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman.
Beutler and Hoffmann were honoured for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity", while the other half of the prize was given to Steinman for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity".
"This year's Nobel Laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation," says the Nobel summary.
Nicely done, Nobel Committee. Good job indeed. :) Worthy winners...
Update: (22:30 03/10/11)
Shocked to receive news that Ralph Steinman passed away last Friday. There's this thing about no posthumous award of Nobel Prizes except if death occurred between announcement and presentation. I really felt Steinman deserved it and wished badly that his award will not be revoked. Again, nobelprize.org was crowded with traffic, I couldn't access to find out first hand.. It was through twitter that I learnt...
And was heartened to find that the Nobel committee announced soon after, "What we can do is to regret that Steinman could not experience the joy. We don't name new winners"
