Wiley Authors Once Again Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Posted by cpeditorial on October 10, 2008
Wiley Authors Once Again Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wiley is pleased to announce that all three 2008 Chemistry Nobel laureates are part of our publishing community. We congratulate Dr. Osamu Shimomura, Dr. Martin Chalfie, and Dr. Roger Y. Tsien on their award for having discovered green fluorescent protein and related marine photoproteins, and for having developed them into highly useful tools for chemical, biological, and medical analysis.The original discovery of green fluorescent protein was reported by Osamu Shimomura in 1962 in Wiley’s Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology.
Green Fluorescent Protein: Properties, Applications, and Protocols, a highly influential book by Martin Chalfie, which also contains contributions by the other two awardees, was published by Wiley in 1998. It has greatly facilitated the use of this groundbreaking technology and has become the classic text in the field. Martin Chalfie wrote, in the preface to the second edition (2006): In the preface to the first edition of this book seven years ago, we predicted that we were just beginning to see the usefulness of GFP. Although we expected many new uses for this molecule, we are amazed at the extent to which GFP, its derivatives, and similar fluorescent proteins have been used in biology today.”
More of the Nobel laureates’ work has appeared in ten Wiley journals and periodicals including ChemBioChem, Cytometry, Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neurochemistry, Luminescence, Photochemistry and Photobiology, The Harvey Lectures, and The Plant Journal. A historical account of the discovery of green fluorescent protein written by Osamu Shimomura can be found in the book Photoproteins in Bioanalysis (2006).
These distinguished scientists join more than 350 other Nobel laureates who have published with Wiley, including this year’s Medicine awardees Dr. Harald zur Hausen, Dr. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, and Physics awardee Yoichiro Nambu, and last year’s nine winners, Dr. Gerhard Ertl, Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans, Dr. Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg , Leonid Hurwicz, Dr. Erik Maskin, Dr. Roger Myerson, and Dr. Oliver Smithies. .
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Wiley’s release on the announcement follows:
Wiley Authors win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to announce that the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 to Prof. Harald zur Hausen and jointly to Prof. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Prof. Luc Montagnier.
“We are honored that all three Nobel Prize winners are part of our publishing community. We congratulate Prof. Harald zur Hausen, Prof. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Prof. Luc Montagnier for this recognition of their lifetime achievements which have changed the course of science and medicine, as well as the lives of human beings,” said Mike Davis, Vice President and Managing Director, Life Sciences.
Prof. Harald zur Hausen, of Germany, receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer. The Nobel Prize winner is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cancer, has contributed several articles to Wiley-Blackwell journals, and is the book author of Infections Causing Human Cancer, published by Wiley-VCH in 2006.
Prof. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Prof. Luc Montagnier, of France, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the human immunodeficiency virus. Both contributed various articles to Wiley-Blackwell journals and were involved in numerous book projects.
These authors join more than 350 other Nobel laureates who have published with Wiley, including last year’s nine winners, Dr. Gerhard Ertl, Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans, Dr. Albert Fert, Dr. Peter Grunberg, Leonid Hurwicz, Dr. Erik Maskin, Dr. Roger Myerson, and Dr. Oliver Smithies.
2008 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economics will be announced later this week.