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රසායන විද්‍යාව
- Patrick O. Brown
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Why: for the invention and application of DNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variations in gene expression.(ජාන ප්‍රකාශන මට්ටම තීරණය කිරීම ට පහසු වන DNA මයික්‍රො අරාව තාක්ෂණය නිර්මාණය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන්) - Susumu Kitagawa
Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, and Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Why: for the design and development of porous metal-organic frameworks, whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others (වායු ගබඩා කිරීම, වායුන් වෙන්කර ගැනීම, වායුන් පිරිසිඳු කිරීම වැනි කාර්යයන්ට භාවිතා කළහැකි ලෝහ සහ කාබනික සංයුක්ත අනු නිර්මාණය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන්) - Stephen J. Lippard
Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
Why: for pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, including the discovery of metallointercalators to disrupt DNA replication, an important contribution to improved cancer therapy (ජෛව අකාබනික රසායන විද්‍යාව නගා සි‍ටුවීමට පුරෝගාමී පර්යෙෂණ කිරීම, විශේෂයෙන්ම ලෝහ අන්තර්ස්ථාපන අනු මගින් DNA ප්‍රතිවලිත වීම වැලක්වීම මගීන් පිළිකා ප්‍රතිකාර ක්‍රම නිර්මාණය වෙනුවෙන්) - Omar M. Yaghi
Jean Stone Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
Why: for the design and development of porous metal-organic frameworks, whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others (වායු ගබඩා කිරීම, වායුන් වෙන්කර ගැනීම, වායුන් පිරිසිඳු කිරීම වැනි කාර්යයන්ට භාවිතා කළහැකි ලෝහ සහ කාබනික සංයුක්ත අනු නිර්මාණය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන්)
- Charles L. Bennett
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA, and Senior Scientist for Experimental Cosmology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
Why: for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition - Thomas W. Ebbesen
Professor, University of Strasbourg, and Director, ISIS (Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering), Strasbourg, France
Why: for observation and explanation of the transmission of light through subwavelength holes, which ignited the field of surface plasmon photonics - Lyman A. Page
Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
Why: for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition - Saul Perlmutter
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA
Why: for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy - Adam G. Riess
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA, and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA
Why: for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy - Brian P. Schmidt
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
Why: for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy - David N. Spergel
Charles Young Professor on the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
Why: for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition
- Douglas L. Coleman
Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME USA
Why: for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism - Jeffrey M. Friedman
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Why: for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism - Ernest A. McCulloch
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Why: for the discovery of stem cells - Ralph M. Steinman
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
Why: for the discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of immune response - James E. Till
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Why: for the discovery of stem cells - Shinya Yamanaka
Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA USA; and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
Why: for the development of induced pluripotent stem cells
- Alberto Alesina
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
Why: for theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between politics and macroeconomics, and specifically for research on politico-economic cycle - Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA
Why: for formulation of the Kiyotaki-Moore model, which describes how small shocks to an economy may lead to a cycle of lower output resulting from a decline in collateral values that creates a restrictive credit environment - John H. Moore
George Watson’s and Daniel Stewart’s Professor of Political Economics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London, England
Why: for formulation of the Kiyotaki-Moore model, which describes how small shocks to an economy may lead to a cycle of lower output resulting from a decline in collateral values that creates a restrictive credit environment - Kevin M. Murphy
George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL USA, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford CA USA
Why: for pioneering empirical research in social economics, including wage inequality and labor demand, unemployment, addiction, and the economic return of investment in medical research, among other topics
