Candidates for laureates
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 will be announced in Stockholm
This is reported by the press service of the Nobel Foundation.
The list of possible candidates compiled by journalists based on their own assumptions or reports from those organizations that submitted their candidate for the award is not very long this year. It should be noted that predicting Nobel laureates is a difficult matter. You can make a very long list of likely candidates for the award, but the Nobel Committee will still name names that none of the experts mentioned in their assumptions. Although there are years when journalists still manage to predict the winners of the award. But this rarely happens. The list of candidates for the award, compiled directly by the Nobel Committee, is secret and will be published only after 50 years.
In the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Chan Tang (China) and Steven van Slyke (USA), who created the technology of organic LEDs, are considered among the likely contenders for the award. The same scientists are also considered prize-winners by experts of the Thomson Reuters media company, which predicts possible candidates based on the citation of their works and taking into account key trends in the scientific field.
Why not, Swedish journalists think, call the Nobel Committee and congratulate this 2014 with the award of John Goodenough, whose work led to the appearance of lithium-ion batteries. Other equally interesting candidates are considered in Sweden and Eugene Myers, Craig Venter and Leroy Hood, who developed a model of rapid reading of DNA.
Thomson Reuters believes that the prize can be awarded for the development of mesoporous materials to three scientists – Charles Kresge (Saudi Arabia), Ren Re (South Korea) and Galen Stucky (USA).
They are named in Thomson Reuters and working in Australia Graham Moude, Edzio Ridzardo and San Chang, who developed additive fragmentation polymerization with chain transfer (RAFT).
The awarding ceremony of the winners named on Wednesday will be held according to tradition in Stockholm on December 10, the day of the death of the founder of the Nobel Prizes – the Swedish entrepreneur and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
Last year, the 2013 Chemistry Award was awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Ari Warshel, working in the USA, for the development of models of complex chemical systems
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