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.