Nobel Prizes

[Adam Smith]

The 2005 Nobel Prizes will be anounced his week.

The prize for medicine was awarded today to two Australians for their discovery of the role of bacteria in stomach ulcers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4304290.stm

Other prizes include
Physics
Chemistry
Peace
Economics
Literature

Thoughts or comments on who might win, or the importance of the work of those who do win?

[Gangerolf]

they say that Bono from U2 (!) might get the peace prize.
other top candidates are US senators Lugar and Nunn and former Finnish president Ahtisaari.

[Gangerolf]

Here are odds by the Australian betting agency Centrebet:

# 4-1 -- former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who brokered peace efforts in the Balkans and Namibia.

# 6.5-1 -- U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., for their program to dismantle Cold War-era nuclear arsenals.

# 7-1 -- Rock musicians Bono and Bob Geldof, who have campaigned to ease Third World poverty.

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/nobel3e_20051003.htm

[Adam Smith]

Possible Economics winners:

Robert Barro (Harvard): micro foundations of macroeconomics
Eugene Fama (Chicago): efficiency of financial markets
Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia): trade and globalization issues
Peter Diamond (MIT): retirement / aging issues
Paul Romer (Stanford): really cool stuff on economic growth, but he's too young to win

[chequita guevara]

Interesting how much time lapses between discoveries and awards. I had an h. pylori infection in the 90s.

[Lul Thyme]

It's always like that.
They usually want to judge a little bit the medium-term effects etc...

[DaShi]

Once again my efforts here have been overlooked.

[Az]

Yeah, it's a real shame that the breakthroughs and the prizes are so far apart in terms of time.

Last year, a couple of professors from my university ( ) got the Nobel prize for Chemistry for work they've done in the 70s.

[KrazyHorse]

No idea who they're looking at this year.

24 hours till the big one...

[DanS]

The medicine prize couldn't have gone to a more worthy couple.

I remember when this was discovered. The theory that bacteria caused ulcers was ridiculed by "scientific concensus." Marshall actually drank the bacteria -- giving himself ulcers -- and then cured the ulcers with antibiotics. This is a story that should go down prominently among the history of science.

[VetLegion]

The economic one wasn't established by Nobel /nitpick

[KrazyHorse]

Notice how I restrained myself this time, Adam?

[Q Classic]

Bono might get the Peace Prize? What, is not enough of a joke yet?

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
Bono might get the Peace Prize? What, is not enough of a joke yet?

Give it to Arafat again.

[Q Classic]

Can't award Nobels posthumously, I thought.