John Wiley & Sons, Inc., congratulates the winners of all the 2013 Nobel
Prizes and is pleased to learn that ten laureates have published work in
Wiley titles; as have researchers affiliated to the 2013 Nobel Peace
Prize winner, The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
To celebrate the achievements of all the laureates, Wiley is making a selection
of content from the 2013 winners free to access until the end of the
year.
“It is a great honor to be able to count such prestigious researchers
among our community of authors,” said Steven Miron, Senior Vice
President, Global Research, Wiley. “I am proud that so many of the 2013
winners have chosen to work in partnership with Wiley throughout their
careers.”
The highly-celebrated winner, Professor Peter W. Higgs, of the
University of Edinburgh, U.K., was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics,
alongside Professor François Englert, of Université libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium, for their theoretical discovery of the ‘Higgs Boson’; a
discovery which was confirmed by CERN (The European Organization for
Nuclear Research) in 2012.
Professor Higgs published with Wiley at the start of his illustrious
career, presenting three research papers related to his PhD thesis in Acta
Crystallographica.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Professor Martin Karplus, of
Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, U.S.A.,
Professor Michael Levitt, of Stanford University School of Medicine,
U.S.A., and Professor Arieh Warshel, of the University of Southern
California, U.S.A., for laying the foundations for how computer programs
are used to understand and predict chemical processes.
Professor Karplus currently serves on the editorial advisory boards for
the Wiley published titles, the Journal
of Molecular Recognition and the Journal
of Computational Chemistry; Professor Levitt has
published research in the Journal
of Computational Chemistry, and Professor Warshel has
contributed a chapter on computer simulations of biological molecules to
the Encyclopedia
of Molecular Biology.
Professor James E. Rothman, of Yale University, U.S.A., Professor Randy
W. Schekman, of the University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A., and
Professor Thomas C. Südhof, of Stanford University, U.S.A., were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how cells
transport material.
Professor Rothman has published research in the Journal
of Supramolecular Structure and Protein
Science, Professor Schekman has contributed research to BioEssays,
and Professor Südhof has published twenty journal articles with Wiley
throughout his career, most recently in Genes,
Brain and Behavior.
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to The Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the implementing body of the
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), based at The Hague, Netherlands. OPCW
inspection teams have published their work in Chemical
Weapons Convention Chemicals Analysis: Sample Collection, Preparation
and Analytical Methods, while an overview of
international efforts to locate and destroy chemical weaponry was
presented in the Annals
of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel for 2013 was awarded to Professor Eugene F. Fama, of the
University of Chicago, U.S.A., Professor Lars Peter Hansen, of the
University of Chicago, U.S.A., and Professor Robert J. Shiller, of Yale
University, U.S.A., for developing an understanding of trends in asset
prices.
All three winners have published with Wiley throughout their careers.
Professor Fama first published with Wiley in The
Journal of Finance in 1968, while Professor Shiller’s work
includes research into forecasting housing market prices and returns in Real
Estate Economics, and measuring asset values in derivative
markets in The
Journal of Finance.
To celebrate the achievements of the Nobel laureates, Wiley will be
making a selection of content from this year’s winners free to access
until the end of the year. Please visit the Nobel
Prize page on Wiley Online Library for more information and to
access content.
For more information on each of the winners’ publications, please visit
the individual announcements on the Wiley Press Room:
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