Elsevier congratulates the 2011 Nobel Laureates and their prominent findings in the fields of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics. We feel honored to have had the opportunity to work with these remarkable scientists in the creation and publication of their award-winning research. In recognition of these extraordinary scholars, we make their articles published with Elsevier freely available.
2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Elsevier congratulates Professor Ralph M. Steinman, Professor Jules A. Hoffmann and Professor Bruce A. Beutler
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2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Elsevier congratulates Professor Dan Shechtman
Dr. Shechtman, professor of materials science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, professor at Iowa State University and a researcher at the United States Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, won the award “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” He fought a “fierce battle against established science” which “fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter.”
Crystals are solid materials in which the atoms that make up the material are arranged in a periodic pattern. However, certain symmetries do not allow periodic, translational patterns to form, and so it became a long held belief that materials would not adopt structures that contained such configurations. Dr. Shechtman found otherwise, with the discovery of a metal alloy that possessed five-fold rotational symmetry. His discovery meant a fight against established science, and in the wake of his breakthrough, the field of crystallography has changed fundamentally.
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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Elsevier congratulates Professor Saul Perlmutter, Professor Brian P. Schmidt and Professor Adam G. Riess
Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley professor and astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, won half the award; Brian Schmidt, astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, and Adam Riess, professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University won the second half. All three received the award “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae” – a finding which came as a surprise to even the Laureates themselves, since they, along with the research community, expected a cosmic deceleration to be measured.
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2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Elsevier congratulates Professor Christopher A. Sims and Professor Thomas J. Sargent
Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent were jointly awarded the prize "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy". Independently conducted, their complementary research has been fundamental to policymakers’ and researchers’ understanding of the major short and long term aspects of macroeconomics. Sims has identified and analyzed the impact of unanticipated events on the economy, such as an increase in the price of oil. Sargent’s research analyzes the effects and consequences of changes in economic policy including GDP, inflation and investment.
