tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post3374968487417607091..comments2024-03-25T09:11:17.877-07:00Comments on The Curious Wavefunction: 2015 Nobel Prize predictionsWavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-19120786015183131122015-10-16T19:27:12.435-07:002015-10-16T19:27:12.435-07:00I don't know if anyone is still reading this, ...I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but the following article tells an interesting story about the race to solve the high resolution nucleosome structure.<br /><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44196/title/Crystal-Unclear/" rel="nofollow">http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44196/title/Crystal-Unclear/</a>artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-61342117856802961112015-10-11T11:46:23.947-07:002015-10-11T11:46:23.947-07:00At least I was able to guess neutrino oscillations...At least I was able to guess neutrino oscillations for the Physics Prize. I'm glad because I think the Super Kamiokande and the SNO teams deserved it.artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-55630994649764569382015-10-05T21:41:16.019-07:002015-10-05T21:41:16.019-07:00I'm not sure if Richmond has a chance to win, ...I'm not sure if Richmond has a chance to win, but I wouldn't mind it, either. And it is fun to imagine how chemists will react if Richmond wins. Richmond, who? :)artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-5054641053239291562015-10-05T21:32:44.187-07:002015-10-05T21:32:44.187-07:00I agree that it was unusually quick. But I also th...I agree that it was unusually quick. But I also think RNAi was more exciting than many of the Lasker Award winning discoveries. I also think that waiting would not have changed the choice of the recipients (Mello and Fire).artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-8774500946358587442015-10-05T09:05:54.100-07:002015-10-05T09:05:54.100-07:00Lithium ion battery should get it because of its h...Lithium ion battery should get it because of its huge implications in today's portable devices. However, this is not free of controversy with regard of who would be rewarded for it. Goodenough is a sure choice, but the other awardees could be Yazami and Yoshino, as the Draper prize previously recognized (https://www.nae.edu/Projects/Awards/DraperPrize/DraperWinners/105792.aspx).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-31006983537331442062015-10-05T07:18:49.455-07:002015-10-05T07:18:49.455-07:00I am not too familiar with the field but it does s...I am not too familiar with the field but it does seem like chromatin biology should be recognized at some point.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-89966873095089751812015-10-05T07:18:22.622-07:002015-10-05T07:18:22.622-07:00Nice list, especially the analysis of CRISPR and t...Nice list, especially the analysis of CRISPR and tumor genes.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-39386452334693250732015-10-05T07:15:15.846-07:002015-10-05T07:15:15.846-07:00I do not necessarily disagree about the basic impo...I do not necessarily disagree about the basic importance, just about the timing!Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-1682006591690109192015-10-05T01:20:26.570-07:002015-10-05T01:20:26.570-07:00Considering "biological" topics, I think...Considering "biological" topics, I think chromatin biology should be awarded at some point.<br />It has had such a big impact in many parts of biology and is central to understanding eukaryotic gene regulation.<br />David Allis seems to a natural candidate there, but maybe also Michael Grunstein and Thomas Jenuwein.<br />Personnaly I consider the atomic structure of the nucleosome one of the most influential structures out there and thus wouldn't mind Tim Richmond (although Aaron Klug already got the prize for related work)Alfred Wallacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-73136329751956403042015-10-05T00:57:20.816-07:002015-10-05T00:57:20.816-07:00Agree on Cryo-EM, just not yet. If you compare e.g...Agree on Cryo-EM, just not yet. If you compare e.g. to the ribosome structure Nobel, which is certainly cool stuff but of limited relevance to the rest of science, cryo-EM technology has and will have a tremendous impact on a lot of (also biological relevant) structural biology.Alfred Wallacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-68323687347319195842015-10-05T00:06:59.157-07:002015-10-05T00:06:59.157-07:00Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time...Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time ago. I hope he wins this year. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-45458190125130376572015-10-05T00:06:57.023-07:002015-10-05T00:06:57.023-07:00Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time...Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time ago. I hope he wins this year. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-60421446713579849742015-10-05T00:05:39.029-07:002015-10-05T00:05:39.029-07:00Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time...Weinerbeg should have won for medicine a long time ago. I hope he wins this year. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-31065367225540974952015-10-04T21:59:38.809-07:002015-10-04T21:59:38.809-07:00Sure, it's definitely interesting basic biolog...Sure, it's definitely interesting basic biology, but I think the hype about RNAi-based therapies played a big part in why they got the Nobel Prize when they did. Time will tell if that really pans out.GCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-68712965431580034002015-10-04T21:52:32.138-07:002015-10-04T21:52:32.138-07:00Very interesting post, I definitely learned some t...Very interesting post, I definitely learned some things from it. Perhaps you're right about why there hasn't been a Nobel Prize for tumour suppressors yet... it's tough to pick only three recipients!GCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-76876552440047675622015-10-04T12:31:45.315-07:002015-10-04T12:31:45.315-07:00I also would like to strongly disagree Ash and GCC...I also would like to strongly disagree Ash and GCC above on RNAi. Don't think of it just as a tool! It was a new and very exciting biology!artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-45725435615415400052015-10-04T12:15:17.025-07:002015-10-04T12:15:17.025-07:00I wrote my speculations including lengthy analysis...I wrote my speculations including lengthy analysis of a possible CRISPR prize (though I think they will wait) and why there hasn't been a tumor suppressor gene prize for Weinberg/Vogelstein.<br />http://tensha-honyaku.blogspot.com/2015/10/who-will-win-nobel-prize.html<br /><br />Do you think there could be a Chemistry Prize for the cryo-RM revolution? Probably not this year, but in the future.artkqtarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086738569963694321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-63369139147950517172015-10-02T18:57:08.847-07:002015-10-02T18:57:08.847-07:00Agreed. There's lots of very important and muc...Agreed. There's lots of very important and much better validated discoveries/inventions like cancer genes and DNA fingerprinting which need to be recognized. CRISPR can wait.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-89773729687809848992015-09-30T17:06:21.513-07:002015-09-30T17:06:21.513-07:00I really hope they hold off on a CRISPR-related pr...I really hope they hold off on a CRISPR-related prize for a few years. I’m sure there will be one eventually (as there almost certainly should be), but I feel like in recent years there have been quite a few physiology/medicine Nobel Prizes that were a bit premature, including the prize for RNAi.<br /><br />RNAi was and still is obviously a very powerful tool for research, but in many ways it may be superseded by CRISPR in the years to come and it still isn’t clear if there will ever be effective RNAi-based therapies for any major diseases. In my mind a prize for the discovery of miRNAs would have made more sense than one for RNAi. I guess a prize for the discovery of miRNAs is still possible (to Victor Ambros, Tom Tuschl, and David Bartel presumably… with Gary Ruvkun as the odd man out), but I doubt it’ll happen. Personally I think the Nobel Prize for iPS cells was premature as well.<br /><br />I guess I just don’t understand why there’s such a rush to award Nobel Prizes for work done in the last five to ten years when there are so many worthy contributions from ten, twenty, or more years ago that still haven’t been recognized by a Nobel Prize.<br /><br />Another thing that seems crazy to me is when a Nobel is awarded to a single person in a field that had many important contributors worthy of a Nobel Prize. For example, the 2006 chemistry Nobel to Roger Kornberg for work on eukaryotic transcription seems like a missed opportunity to recognize others that made major contributions to the field.<br /><br />Anyway, my vote is for Vogelstein and Weinberg for the medicine prize… although my vote doesn’t count for much! :)GCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-56507476248533243512015-09-30T13:59:48.280-07:002015-09-30T13:59:48.280-07:00I think Whitesides will never get it. To be honest...I think Whitesides will never get it. To be honest, I don't think he should get one anyways. Nobel recognitions usually is about one single "important" thing. Hard to find something like that in Whitesides' work.Chemdiaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06428076032546974013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-10993543064633874612015-09-30T08:03:29.262-07:002015-09-30T08:03:29.262-07:00Whitesides has always been a tough prediction for ...Whitesides has always been a tough prediction for me. There are few people in the world - in any field of human inquiry - whose intellect and contributions I admire more, but in some sense I think Whitesides is a victim of his own success since he has contributed so extensively to so many fields that it would be really hard to single him out even for a lifetime achievement award. I think the one field in which he could have won the award more specifically was surface chemistry, and I was sorely disappointed when they did not recognize him along with Ertl.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-4091461838323159242015-09-30T07:43:36.411-07:002015-09-30T07:43:36.411-07:00I guess Professor Whitesides is not likely to get ...I guess Professor Whitesides is not likely to get it? I would have assumed he'd be under "lifetime achievement awards".Hapnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-20439975331953135302015-09-29T13:44:07.435-07:002015-09-29T13:44:07.435-07:00I hope Harry Gray and Steve Lippard will win the p...I hope Harry Gray and Steve Lippard will win the prize. But, I feel like it's time for Hartwig, Buchwald and Sonogashira.Chemdiaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06428076032546974013noreply@blogger.com