the 2012 nobel laureates

The 2012 Nobel Laureates

The people who made significant contributions to the world in 2012

PHYSICSSerge Haroche &David

Wineland

CHEMISTRYBrian Kobilka & Robert Lefkowitz

MEDICINEJohn Gurdon & Shinya

Yamanaka

LITERATUREMo Yan

PEACEEuropean Union

ECONOMICSAlvin Roth & Lloyd

Shapley

The six categories of the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in PhysicsSerge Haroche & David J. Wineland

For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum

systems.

Serge Haroche Awards Won

• Officer of the French Legion of Honour• 1988 Einstein Prize for Laser Science (awarded at Lasers '88).• 1992 The Humboldt Prize• 1993 Albert A. Michelson Medal by the Franklin Institute• 2007 Charles Hard Townes Award by the OSA• 2009 CNRS Gold medal• 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with David J. Wineland)

Serge Haroche is a Professor at the Collège de France and holds the Chair of Quantum Physics. Serge works primarily in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is principally known for proving quantum decoherence by experimental observation, while working with colleagues at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1996.

Age : 68Date of Birth : 09/11/1944Nationality : French

More on Serge Haroche at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Haroche

http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-serge-haroche

David J. Wineland Awards Won• 1990 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics• 1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America• 1996 Einstein Prize for Laser Science of the Society of Optical and

Quantum Electronics• 1998 Rabi Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and

Frequency Control Society• 2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science• 2007 National Medal of Science in the engineering sciences• 2009 Herbert Walther Award from the OSA• 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics shared with Juan Ignacio

Cirac and Peter Zoller• Frederic Ives Medal• 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics shared with Serge Haroche

David Jeffrey Wineland is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling of ions in Paul traps and use of trapped ions to implement quantum computing operations. David is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Optical Society, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

Age : 69Date of Birth : 02/24/1944Nationality : American

More on David Wineland at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Wineland

The Nobel Prize in ChemistryBrian K. Kobilka & Robert J. Lefkowitz

For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors, which improved the

understanding of how they function.

Brian K. KobilkaAwards Won

• 1994 John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology• 2007 Breakthrough of the Year Award• 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Robert Lefkowitz)

Brian Kent Kobilka is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.


More on Brian Kobilka at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kobilka

Robert J. Lefkowitz Awards Won• 1978 John Jacob Abel Award in Pharmacology• 1988 Gairdner Foundation International Award• 1992 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement In

Cardiovascular Research• 2001 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal of the USA - The National

Academy of Sciences• 2003 Fondation Lefoulon – Delalande Grand Prix for Science• 2007 National Medal of Science• 2007 The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine• 2007 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical

Research• 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, in the

Biomedicine Category• 2009 Research Achievement Award• 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Brian Kobilka)

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University. He is best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors.


More on Robert Lefkowitz at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lefkowitz

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineShinya Yamanaka & John B. Gurdon

For the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become

pluripotent, stem cells that have the potential to be used as endoderms,

mesoderms or ectoderms.

Shinya YamanakaAwards Won

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Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese physician and researcher of adult stem cells. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California. Yamanaka is also the current president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

Age : 50Date of Birth : 09/02/1962Nationality : Japanese

More on Shinya Yamanaka at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka Honors and Awards

• 2007 Osaka Science Prize• 2007 Inoue Prize for Science• 2007 Asahi Prize• 2007 Meyenburg Cancer Research Award• 2008 Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize in Biological Science &

Technology• 2008 Robert Koch Prize• 2008 Medals of Honor (Japan) (with purple ribbon)• 2008 Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine• 2008 Sankyo Takamine Memorial Award• 2008 Massry Prize from the Keck School of Medicine,

University of Southern California• 2009 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in

Basic Medical Research[26]• 2009 Gairdner Foundation International Award• 2009 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research• 2010 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology

• 2010 Kyoto Prize in Biotechnology and medical technology• 2010 Balzan Prize in biology• 2010 Person of Cultural Merit• 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in

the Biomedicine Category• 2011 Albany Medical Center Prize in biomedicine• 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine• 2011 King Faisal International Prize• 2011 McEwen Award for Innovation• 2012 Millennium Technology Prize• 2012 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences• 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine• 2012 Order of Culture• 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

John B. GurdonAwards Won

• 1971 Fellow of the Royal Society• 1995 Knight of the Royal Society• 2005 Honorary Member of the American Association of

Anatomists• 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award• 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (Shared with

Shinya Yamanaka)

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon is a developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. John's recent research has focused on analysing intercellular signalling factors involved in cell differentiation, and on elucidating the mechanisms involved in reprogramming the nucleus in transplantation experiments, including the role of histone variants, and demethylation of the transplanted DNA.

Age : 79Date of Birth : 10/02/1933Nationality : British

More on John Gurdon at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gurdon

The Nobel Prize in LiteratureMo Yan

Who with ‘hallucinatory realism’ merges folk tales, history and the

contemporary.

Mo Yan Awards Won• 1998: Neustadt International Prize for Literature• 2005: Kiriyama Prize• 2005: Doctor of Letters, Open University of Hong Kong• 2006: Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize XVII• 2007: Man Asian Literary Prize, nominee, Big Breasts and

Wide Hips• 2009: Newman Prize for Chinese Literature• 2010: Honorary Fellow, Modern Language Association• 2011: Mao Dun Literature Prize• 2012: Nobel Prize in Literature

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a novelist and short story writer. He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for the film Red Sorghum. Mo has been referred by Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers".

Age : 58Date of Birth : 02/17/1955Nationality : Chinese

More on Mo Yan at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Yan

The Nobel Peace PrizeThe European Union

For having over six decades contributed to the advancement of

peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states.

Age : 60Founded : 07/23/1952Nationality : N/A

More on the European Union at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

List of Member States• See full list on next slide.

Member States of the European Union

• Austria (Joined 1995)• Belgium (Founder)• Bulgaria (Joined 2007)• Cyprus (Joined 2004)• Czech Republic (Joined 2004)• Denmark (Joined 1973)• Estonia (Joined 2004)• Finland (Joined 1995)• France (Founder)• Germany (Founder)• Greece (Joined 1981)• Hungary (Joined 2004)• Ireland (Joined 1973)• Italy (Founder)• Latvia (Joined 2004)• Lithuania (Joined (2004)

• Luxembourg (Founder)• Malta (Joined 2004)• The Netherlands (Founder)• Poland (Joined 2004)• Portugal (Joined 1986)• Romania (Joined 2007)• Slovakia (Joined 2004)• Slovenia (Joined 2004)• Spain (Joined 1986)• Sweden (Joined 1995)• The United Kingdom (Joined 1973)

The Nobel Prize in EconomicsAlvin E. Roth & Lloyd S. Shapley

For the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.

Alvin E. RothAwards Won

• 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Shared with Lloyd Shapley)

Alvin Elliot Roth and a visiting professor at Stanford University and George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School. is an economist. Alvin has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying his economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems.


More on Alvin Roth at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_E._Roth

Lloyd S. Shapley Awards Won• 1944 Bronze Star, U.S. Army Air Corps• 1951 Procter Fellow, Princeton University• 1967 Fellow, Econometric Society • 1974 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences• 1979 Member, National Academy of Sciences• 1981 John von Neumann Theory Prize• 1986 Honorary Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem• 2002 Fellow, INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the

Management Sciences)• 2007 Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association• 2012 Fellow, American Mathematical Society• 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Shared with

Alvin Roth)

Lloyd Stowell Shapley is a distinguished mathematician and economist. He is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, affiliated with departments of Mathematics and Economics. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Lloyd has been regarded by many experts as the very personification of game theory.


More on Lloyd Shapley at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Shapley

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