From: A De (ocad$##$mahendra.iacs.res.in)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 00:42:09 EDT
Calcutta, 11th October 1999
I would like to see Heck, Suzuki and Stile as recepients of Nobel Prize.
Asish De
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, John Kerkines wrote:
> Forthcoming Tuesday is Nobel Prize day for Chemistry.
>
> By observing the trends in the way the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one would
> see that Analytical and Organic Chemistry haven't seen a Nobel Prize for
> some years.
>
> The last Nobel Prize in "Analytical" Chemistry was given in 1991 to
> Richard Ernst for high resolution NMR. In the 80's three Nobels were given
> for analytical-crystallographic-related work (1982, Sir A. Klug, 1985
> Hauptman and Karle, 1988 Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel).
>
> If we do not count the 1996 prize for fullerenes as "organic" chemistry,
> George Olah's 1994 prize for carbocations is the last Nobel Prize given to
> an Organic Chemist. Organic-related Nobels in the past two decades include
> 1984 Merrifield, 1987 Cram, Lehn and Pedersen and 1990 Corey.
>
> Since I am neither an organic, nor an analytical chemist, I am not able to
> propose names of scientists in these fields who may have a chance in
> winning a Nobel Prize. The past experience has shown that the last years
> almost all of the laureates come from the USA, and at least one of them is
> at a high-level University (MIT, Cornell, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard to
> name a few). So, I would search for potential candidates in Analytical or
> Organic Chemistry in these Universities.
>
> There is always a chance for a "combination of fields" Nobel Prize. For
> example A.Bax who is first in the list of citations is doing NMR in bio
> systems (but probably he is too young for a Nobel Prize?). Another example
> would be Dick Zare in the field of spectroscopy (he is in Stanford), and
> S. Lippard in bioinorganic (he is in MIT).
>
> Another thing, is the number or papers or citations. There are 5 Nobel
> laureates among the first 30 cited chemists. Possibly there would be
> another one soon. Almost 10 of the first 30 are theoreticians, so they are
> eliminated since it is rare that the same field gets the Nobel Prize two
> consecutive years. I checked out some of the people that remain. Some
> names I found interesting were D. Seebach from ETH and K.C. Nicolaou from
> Scripps in Organic, and A. Bard in Analytical. There are more of them of
> course.
>
> Since most of you are more aware than me with what's happening in organic
> chemistry, if this year would be for organic chemistry, who would you
> propose and why?
>
> Regards,
> John Kerkines
> Ph.D. Student
> University of Athens, Greece
>
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