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Bonnie Bassler is the recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award

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Date:  Jan. 20, 2011

 

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Acad­emy Hon­ors 13 for Major Con­tri­bu­tions to Science

 

WASHINGTON — The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences (NAS) will honor 13 indi­vid­u­als with awards rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ments in the areas of biol­ogy, chem­istry, physics, eco­nom­ics and psychology.

 

The recip­i­ents for 2011 are:

 

“Bon­nie L. Bassler, Howard Hughes Med­ical Insti­tute Inves­ti­ga­tor, and Squibb Pro­fes­sor in the depart­ment of mol­e­c­u­lar biol­ogy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, is the recip­i­ent of the Richard Louns­bery Award. Bassler is being hon­ored for her pio­neer­ing dis­cov­er­ies of the uni­ver­sal use of chem­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion among bac­te­ria and the elu­ci­da­tion of struc­tural and reg­u­la­tory mech­a­nisms con­trol­ling bac­te­r­ial assem­blies. This $50,000 prize rec­og­nizes extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ment by French and Amer­i­can sci­en­tists in biol­ogy and medicine.”

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Source: What’s New @ The National Academies

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Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) predicts Nobel Laureates for 2010

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Thom­son Reuters pre­dicts Nobel Lau­re­ates for 2010 — 22 Sep 2010

“Infor­ma­tion ser­vices provider Thom­son Reuters, US, has announced the 2010 Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates researchers likely to be in con­tention for Nobel hon­ours. Thom­son Reuters claims to be the only organ­i­sa­tion to use quan­ti­ta­tive data to make annual pre­dic­tions of Nobel Prize winners.

Each year, Thom­son Reuters uses data from its research solu­tion, Web of Knowl­edge, to quan­ti­ta­tively deter­mine the most influ­en­tial researchers in the Nobel cat­e­gories of Phys­i­ol­ogy or Med­i­cine, Physics, Chem­istry, and Eco­nom­ics. Based on cita­tions to their works, the com­pany names these high-impact researchers as Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates and pre­dicts them to be Nobel Prize win­ners, either this year or in the near future. Since 2002, 19 Cita­tion Lau­re­ates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.

The Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates typ­i­cally rank among the top one-tenth of one per­cent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields, based on cita­tions of their pub­lished papers over the last two decades. This year, 15 of the 21 Cita­tion Lau­re­ates hail from Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties. Researchers from France, Japan, Aus­tralia, Canada and the United King­dom also appear among the 2010 picks.

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 9–22-10

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National Academy of Sciences honors 18 scientists

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yellow bullet  Acad­emy Hon­ors 18 for Major Con­tri­bu­tions to Sci­ence
Jan. 28, 2009: The NAS will honor 18 indi­vid­u­als in 2009 with awards rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ments in the areas of biol­ogy, chem­istry, geol­ogy, astron­omy, social sci­ences, psy­chol­ogy, and appli­ca­tion of sci­ence for the pub­lic good.

Source:  Jan. 30, 2009