Professor Oliver Hart, a former undergraduate聽at King鈥檚 College (1966), and a former Fellow of Churchill College, has been jointly awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Bengt Holmstr枚m of MIT聽for their work in the field of contracts.
Three alumni of the 探花直播 of Cambridge聽were today awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in the field of condensed matter physics.
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a deserving winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, whose work shows the value of basic research, writes Professor David Rubinsztein, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research on 探花直播Conversation website.
Professor Angus Deaton, a graduate and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, 探花直播 of Cambridge, has been awarded 探花直播Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015.
Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society.
Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the 鈥渇ather of genomics鈥, died in 2013 at the age of 95. 探花直播founding member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and the person after whom the Sanger Institute is named, he was known as an extremely modest and self-effacing man whose innumerable scientific contributions had an extraordinary impact on molecular biology.
探花直播Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has today been jointly awarded to Professor Sir John Gurdon, Emeritus Professor in Cell Biology currently at the 探花直播鈥檚 Gurdon Institute, along with Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto 探花直播, for their pioneering work in stem cell research.
A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other material belonging to Max Born 鈥 one of the fathers of quantum mechanics 鈥 being opened by Cambridge 探花直播鈥檚 Churchill Archives Centre.
Professor Robert Edwards, Pensioner Fellow at Churchill College and Emeritus Professor of Human Reproduction at the 探花直播, was today awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
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