The Nobel Prize 2002

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:45 pm

Today, my institution announced this years winners of the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine. The prize goes to:

Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their research on C Elegans

which has led to

"discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" (apoptosis). Understanding of programmed cell death is of crucial importance for a wide range of different diseases like virus and neurogenerative diseases, as well as the natural aging process.

Read more here:

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2002/press.html

Scayde · Post by **Scayde** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:56 pm

* Beer Toast* Kudos CE... You've done it

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:01 pm

Originally posted by Scayde
* Beer Toast* Kudos CE... You've done it

I'm afraid this is as close as I'll come to get the Nobel prize

Maybe it's because my prof (my supervisor) is in the committee who chose the laurates

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:03 pm

Haha, thats cool. Well done.

On a related (kinda) topic, George 'dubyah' bush was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I wasn't aware that after waging war on one (??2??) countries you could still be eligable....

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:10 pm

@Obsidian: Anyone can be nominated to the Peace prize, you can even send in you suggestion yourself, although a committee decides who gets it. (Last year there were some really crazy nominations.) This is contrary to the other prizes (medicine, physics, chemistry and literature) where nomination cannot be made, the expert committees decide which candidates are suitable.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:48 pm

In my drunken state, I don't understand all of this, but it seems like your famous CE

Have a drink one me

Scayde · Post by **Scayde** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:50 pm

Originally posted by Bloodstalker
In my drunken state, I don't understand all of this, but it seems like your famous CE Have a drink one me

LOL. Like they say BS...It's all in the name...

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:54 pm

I'd think about that, if I wasn't afraid of what I would find

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:39 am

research on C Elegans

It must be difficult being the world's most beautiful nematode...I guess you get no privacy anymore

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:00 am

As I say every year...

If I don't win a Nobel Peace Prize this year I WILL KILL SOMEONE!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:47 am

Originally posted by frogus
It must be difficult being the world's most beautiful nematode...I guess you get no privacy anymore

Question is, how beautiful can a nematode get?

The physics prize was just announced, it goes astrophysics.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba for their general contribution to astrophysics and in particular for the detection of neutrinos

and Riccardo Giacconi for the discovery of cosmic
X-ray sources.

Read more here: http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2002/public.html

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:03 am

Hmmm and I didn't get it this year either, are you sure it isn't rigged, insider trading that kind of thing...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:20 am

I see there are some complaints here from people dissatisfied with not getting the prize. I very well understand this, so:

This years laurates in medicine got the award for discoveries that is of fundamental importance for our understanding of how genes regulate cellular mechanism, for discoveries that have led to possibilities of treatment for diseases such as AIDS, Myastenia gravis, stroke and also an understanding of the mechanisms that regulate life and death. The laurates in physics have made discoveries concerning the energy forces and building stones in our universe, as well as contructed devices for studying distant radiation sources and contributed to the birth of two new scientific disciplines. So @Kayless and Sleep, if you tell me what contributions you have made to science that is of this magnitude, I promise you I will lay a word or two for you next year!

PS I know a guy who used to stay at home every year the day the winners of the physiology and medicine was announced, waiting for the phone to ring. Well, after 20 years it rang and he got it, so just be patient!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:44 am

Well I discovered that Uranus has a new, previously undiscovered, moon...well I discovered it on sky news but it is all the same.

Who's to say this guy didn't just steal all the work from other scientists who mysteriously disappeared over the last few months.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 7:07 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
So @Kayless and Sleep, if you tell me what contributions you have made to science that is of this magnitude, I promise you I will lay a word or two for you next year!

The Nobel Prizes are given for scientific contribution?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 7:10 am

@Sleep: ROFL, I have the feeling that the competition for getting the physics prize for a discovery made on Sky news will be very hard

But I'll see what I can do

Btw, I discovered an entirely new body in our solar system, beyond Pluto, on the BBC. Somebody had already named it Quaoar, but what the hell....

@Kayless: Maybe you are more suited to go for the Literture prize...for your SYM writing

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 7:25 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
@Kayless: Maybe you are more suited to go for the Literture prize...for your SYM writing

Don’t they give out Nobel Prizes for people who wail on each other with foam baseball bats? Cause man, I kick ass at that! YEE-HAW!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 8:22 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
@Sleep: ROFL, I have the feeling that the competition for getting the physics prize for a discovery made on Sky news will be very hard But I'll see what I can do

You never know though, I mean it's not like they have news on the hour every hour

Btw, I discovered an entirely new body in our solar system, beyond Pluto, on the BBC. Somebody had already named it Quaoar, but what the hell....

Exactly, someone discovered it, at worst steal their identity and claim the prize.

I think though I might be better aiming a little lower any suggestions?

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 8:29 am

Originally posted by Kayless
Don’t they give out Nobel Prizes for people who wail on each other with foam baseball bats? Cause man, I kick ass at that! YEE-HAW!

It wouldn't be any sillier than the Nobel Prize for Economics..

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:37 pm

Originally posted by Osiris
It wouldn't be any sillier than the Nobel Prize for Economics..

Does that mean I can be expecting my Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon?