John Wiley & Sons, Inc., would like to congratulate all of the 2014
Nobel laureates and is proud to have published work by nine of the
laureates. To celebrate their achievements Wiley
has made a selection of content from the 2014 winners free to access
until the end of the year.
“I would like to congratulate each of the 2014 Nobel laureates on their
remarkable achievements,” said Steven Miron, Executive Vice President,
Global Research. “We are honored that the laureates are a part of our
author community and have chosen to publish their research with Wiley
and the societies and organizations we serve.”
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to
Professors John O’Keefe, of University College London, UK, May-Britt
Moser, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and
Edvard I. Moser, of University of Science and Technology, Norway, "for
their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the
brain." All three laureates are Editorial Board Members of the
Wiley journal Hippocampus and all have published with Wiley.
May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser have published research in EMBO
Molecular Medicine, Hippocampus, Scandinavian
Journal of Psychology and European Journal of
Neuroscience. John O’Keefe published two chapters in Wiley's Encyclopedia
of Cognitive Science as well as the CIBA Foundation Symposium series.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Professors Isamu Akasaki, of
Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi
Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura, of University of
California, Santa Barbara, USA, “for
the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled
bright and energy-saving white light sources.” All three laureates
are Wiley authors having published well over 150 papers in Wiley’s Physica
Status Solidi family of journals as well as other Wiley titles.
Shuji Nakamura was publishing with Wiley as early as 1996 with an
article in Advanced Materials. More recently his letter inphysica
status solidi (RRL) attracted more than 100 citations.1 Hiroshi
Amano was a guest editor on three issues of physica status
solidi (c), his most recent edition published in 2014. Isamu
Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura also authored chapters in Nitrides
with Nonpolar Surfaces: Growth, Properties, and Devices (Wiley-VCH,
2008).
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Eric Betzig, of Janelia Farm
Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA;
Stefan W. Hell of Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; and
William E. Moerner of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, “for
the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”
Eric Betzig has published research in Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition as
well as contributing to Current Protocols in Cell Biology;
Stefan W. Hell serves on the Editorial Boards of ChemPhysChem, Annalen
der Physik, Journal of Biophotonics, and Journal
of Microscopy, his latest research appearing in September this year
as a cover story in Chemistry – A European Journal; and W.
E. Moerner has published with Wiley throughout his career and serves on
the Editorial Board of ChemPhysChem.
The 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel 2014 was awarded to Jean Tirole of Toulouse 1 Capitole
University, France, “for
his analysis of market power and regulation."
Jean Tirole serves on the Advisory Board of Journal of the
European Economic Association, his latest Wiley published research
appearing in The RAND Journal of Economics in 2014.
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 individual announcements on
the Wiley Press Room to access content:
1Thomson Reuters, Web of Science, [Cited 07 Oct 2014.]
Available from URL: http://apps.webofknowledge.com/
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