Honoring the 2024 Nobel Laureates with free access to their research
2024년 10월 7일
저자: Alison Bert, DMA

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Read the Nobel Prize winners’ most cited research published by Elsevier
Editor’s note: This article will be continually updated with information about the newly announced Nobel Prize winners and access to their research.
In the coming days, the 2024 Nobel Laureates are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to science. Winning the Nobel Prize represents decades of probing research that has had a profound impact on humanity. These groundbreaking discoveries reinforce the role of research as a driver of progress.
Over the years, the Laureates have not only expanded the frontiers of knowledge — they have set a high standard for research integrity that enables future generations to build on their research with confidence. Their results are not only innovative and impactful but also reproducible and verifiable. Their meticulous attention to detail and adherence to rigorous scientific methods have ensured that their findings are robust and reliable, laying a solid foundation for further exploration and discovery. Their work serves as a beacon for aspiring researchers, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct and integrity in scientific inquiry.
The Laureates are among the thousands of researchers worldwide who collaborate across borders and disciplines, sharing their diverse perspectives to solve complex problems. By upholding the principles of transparency and accountability in their research, they have demonstrated a commitment to fostering a research ecosystem that can be trusted.
The prize also serves as a reminder of the importance of peer-reviewed research that withstands scrutiny. At Elsevier, we’re proud to highlight that most of the Nobel Laureates in science and economics have published in our journals and books — 221 out of 222 since the year 2000, according to a Scopus analysis — and some have also served as editors, editorial board members or reviewers.
The rigor and integrity they bring to their work can help reinforce the confidence in research that is so important to societal progress.
To honor this year’s Nobel Laureates and the community that made their breakthroughs possible, we are bringing together a selection of their most cited papers published with Elsevier. We are confident that their work will, in turn, empower today’s scientists to make further discoveries.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros of UMass Chan Medical School and Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.”
Drs Ambros and Ruvkun have published extensively with Cell Press. In fact, their prize-winning research was published in Cell in 1993. Editor-In-Chief Dr John Pham commented on its far-reaching impact:
“Their work, driven by curiosity about fundamental biological questions, shifted our understanding of how gene expression can be regulated and opened the door to an ever-expanding universe of regulatory non-coding RNAs.”

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John Pham, PhD
Cell의 Editor-in-Chief
Dr Salvatore Fabbiano, Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, said their seminal work “has expanded our understanding of the complex network of transcriptional regulation and cross-talk communication involved in pathophysiological conditions spanning from diabetes to cancer.”
Dr Duc Le, Editor-in-chief of Med, added:
Their research has significantly advanced our understanding of cellular homeostasis, shed light on the implications of microRNA dysregulation in diseases, and offered new insights for therapeutic development. This prestigious recognition is a testament to their exceptional contributions to biomedical science.
Dr Ruvkun has also published in Elsevier’s Developmental Biology and served as an editor and board member.
Selected research by Physiology or Medicine Laureates
*Prize-winning articles
Victor Ambros
Heterochronic genes and the temporal control of C. elegans development, Trends in Genetics (April 1994)
MicroRNAs and Other Tiny Endogenous RNAs in C. elegans, Current Biology (May 2003)
The Decapping Scavenger Enzyme DCS-1 Controls MicroRNA Levels in Caenorhabditis elegans, Molecular Cell (April 2013)
miR-14 Regulates Autophagy during Developmental Cell Death by Targeting ip3-kinase 2, Molecular Cell (Nov 2014)
microRNAs: Tiny Regulators with Great Potential, Cell (Dec 2021)
Pheromones and Nutritional Signals Regulate the Developmental Reliance on let-7 Family MicroRNAs in C. elegans, Current Biology (June 2019)
Ambros and Ruvkun
Gary Ruvkun
Computational and Experimental Identification of C. elegans microRNAs, Molecular Cell (May 2003)
The 20 years it took to recognize the importance of tiny RNAs, Cell (Jan 2004)
Detection of broadly expressed neuronal genes in C. elegans, Developmental Biology (Feb 2007)
A Whole-Genome RNAi Screen for C. elegans miRNA Pathway Genes, Current Biology (Dec 2007)
Tiny RNA: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Trends in Plant Science (July 2008)
C. elegans Major Fats Are Stored in Vesicles Distinct from Lysosome-Related Organelles, Cell Metabolism (Nov 2009)
Regulation of the C. elegans molt by pqn-47, Developmental Biology (Dec 2011)
The Caenorhabditis elegans RDE-10/RDE-11 Complex Regulates RNAi by Promoting Secondary siRNA Amplification, Current Biology (May 2012)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Disrupts Caenorhabditis elegans Iron Homeostasis, Causing a Hypoxic Response and Death, Cell Host & Microbe (April 2013)
piRNAs and piRNA-Dependent siRNAs Protect Conserved and Essential C. elegans Genes from Misrouting into the RNAi Pathway, Developmental Cell (Aug 2015)
Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to John J Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E Hinton of the University of Toronto “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Using tools from physics — and inspired by the workings of the brain — they developed methods that formed the foundation of today’s machine learning. Their research spans the realms of physics, biophysics and computer science, and they published in a variety Elsevier journals and books.
As Dr Vasanthi Jayaraman, Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal, published by Cell Press on behalf of the Biophysical Society, commented:
The pioneering work by John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton on neural networks, inspired by both biological and physical principles, has laid the foundation for modern machine learning and artificial intelligence. This achievement is a testament to the limitless potential of interdisciplinary work bridging fields like physics, biology and computer science.

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Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD
Biophysical Journal의 Editor-in-Chief
Selected research by Physics Laureates
John J Hopfield
On electron transfer, Biophysical Journal (Oct 1976)
Photo-induced charge transfer. A critical test of the mechanism and range of biological electron transfer processes, Biophysical Journal (June 1977)
Hemoglobin-carbon monoxide binding rate. Low temperature magneto-optical detection of spin-tunneling, Biophysical Journal (August 1981)
Separating objects and ‘neural’ computation | Séparation des objets et calcul neuronal, Comptes Rendus Biologies (Feb 2003)
Geoffrey E Hinton
Scene-based and viewer-centered representations for comparing shapes, Cognition (Oct 1988)
Connectionist learning procedures, Artificial Intelligence (Sept 1989)
A time-delay neural network architecture for isolated word recognition, Neural Networks (1990)
Mapping part-whole hierarchies into connectionist networks, Artificial Intelligence (Nov 1990)
Varieties of Helmholtz Machine, Neural Networks (Nov 1996)
Learning multiple layers of representation, Trends in Cognitive Science (Oct 2007)
Learning symmetry groups with hidden units: Beyond the perceptron, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (1986)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker of the University of Washington, Seattle “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper of Google DeepMind, London “for protein structure prediction.”
They have published their research in various Elsevier journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology and various Cell Press titles, including Cell, Neuron and Structure. And once again, their research crossed disciplines.
Prof Michael F Summers, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology, explained the massive impact of Baker’s research:
“David Baker’s exciting work on protein folding and design is reshaping our understanding of biology and medicine. By harnessing cutting-edge computing power and artificial intelligence, Baker and his team have not only advanced our ability to model the fundamental building blocks of life but have also pioneered the design of novel proteins with the potential to combat viruses, target cancer cells, and catalyze chemical reactions.”

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Prof Michael F Summers, PhD
Journal of Molecular Biology의 Editor-in-Chief
Dr Vasanthi Jayaraman, Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal, published by Cell Press on behalf of the Biophysical Society, said: “This has been a great week recognizing and celebrating discoveries in Biophysics.”
In congratulating the Laureates on behalf of her journal colleagues, she wrote:
“Their groundbreaking work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction has revolutionized our understanding of protein structures and opened new frontiers in medicine and biotechnology.”

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Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD
Biophysical Journal의 Editor-in-Chief
Selected research by Chemistry Laureates
David Baker
Preclinical proof of principle for orally delivered Th17 antagonist miniproteins, Cell (August 2024)
Computational Design of Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors of a Bacterial Membrane Lipoprotein Peptidase, ACS Chemical Biology (May 2024)
Accurate de novo design of membrane-traversing macrocycles, Cell (Sept 2022)
A General Computational Approach for Repeat Protein Design, Journal of Molecular Biology (Jan 2015)
High-Resolution Comparative Modeling with RosettaCM, Structure (Oct 2013)
Alternate States of Proteins Revealed by Detailed Energy Landscape Mapping, Journal of Molecular Biology (Jan 2011)
An Orientation-dependent Hydrogen Bonding Potential Improves Prediction of Specificity and Structure for Proteins and Protein–Protein Complexes, Journal of Molecular Biology (Feb 2003)
Demis Hassabis
Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (May 2019)
Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Neuron (July 2017)
The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain, Neuron (Nov 2012)
John M Jumper
Upside: Protein Folding in CPU-Hours with Applications to Force-Unfolding of Membrane Proteins, Biophysical Journal (Feb 2020)
On the Interpretation of Force-Induced Unfolding Studies of Membrane Proteins Using Fast Simulations, Biophysical Journal (Oct 2019)
A Membrane Burial Potential with H-Bonds and Applications to Curved Membranes and Fast Simulations, Biophysical Journal (Nov 2018)
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Simon Johnson of MIT and James A Robinson of the University of Chicago “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
The Laureates have published in various Elsevier titles. Dr Nathanial Hendren, lead co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and Professor of Economics at MIT, commented:
“This award goes to a tremendous group of scholars who have fundamentally improved our understanding of the origins of economic prosperity.”

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Nathaniel Hendren, PhD
Professor of Economics. MIT | Lead Co-Editor, Journal of Public Economics
Selected research by Economics Laureates
Daron Acemoglu
Optimal adaptive testing for epidemic control: Combining molecular and serology tests, Automatica (February 2024)
Mirage on the horizon: Geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment, Journal of Public Economics (March 2023)
The rise of age-friendly jobs, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing (October 2022)
The political agenda effect and state centralization, Journal of Comparative Economics (December 2020)
Innovation by entrants and incumbents, Journal of Economic Theory (May 2015)
Introduction to economic growth, Journal of Economic Theory (March 2012)
Markets versus governments, Journal of Monetary Economics (January 2008)
Politics and economics in weak and strong states, Journal of Monetary Economics (October 2005)
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States, Journal of Financial Economics (August 2016)
Simon Johnson
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports, Journal of Comparative Economics (December 2023)
Is newer better? Penn World Table Revisions and their impact on growth estimates, Journal of Monetary Economics (March 2013)
Propping and tunneling, Journal of Comparative Economics (December 2003)
Dodging the grabbing hand: the determinants of unofficial activity in 69 countries, Journal of Public Economics (June 2000)
Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after communism, Journal of Public Economics (June 2000)
James A Robinson with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth, Handbook of Economic Growth (2005)
Contributors
The following Elsevier colleagues contributed to this story: Christopher Tancock, Aline Schneider, Alex Walker, Lauren Manges, Jennie Giles, Manon Burger, Louise Glenn, Adriian Klinkenberg, Danie Descoteaux, Rob van Daalen, Bethan Keall, Jason Mitchell, Kay Tancock, Anburaj Thangaraj, Sethuraman Vairavan and Lipsa Panda.
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