2013 Nobel Prize Awards

On October 7, 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced. Three scientists shared the award. They are: James E. Rothman, an American scientist from Yale University, and Randy W., an American scientist from the University of California, Berkeley.

Schekman, and Thomas C. Sudhof, a German scientist at Stanford University.

Reason for the award: Discovered the operation and regulation mechanism of the cellular vesicle transport system.

According to a discovery by three scientists, every cell is a factory that produces and delivers molecules.

Molecules are delivered to the desired part of the body at the right time via vesicles surrounding cells.

Their basic discoveries could help treat diseases caused by disrupted cell trafficking, such as neurological diseases, diabetes and immune tissue disorders.

Introduction to the winners: James E. Rothman (November 3, 1950 -) 66 years old, chairman of the Department of Cell Biology and Fergus F. Wallace Memorial Professor of Biomedicine at Yale University.

He has received many honors, including the Louisa Gross-Horwitz Award from Columbia University, the Lasker Award for Basic Medicine (2002), and the King Faisal Award.

Randy W. Schekman (December 30, 1948 -) 65 years old, cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1992, he was elected as an academician of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2002, he and James Rothman won the Lasker Basic Medicine Award for their research on cell membrane transport.

German: Thomas C. Südhof (December 22, 1955 -) 58 years old, German biochemist, famous for his research on synaptic transmission.

Dr. Sudhof's research since 1986 has elucidated a number of major proteins that mediate presynaptic function.

In 2013, he shared the Lasker Basic Medicine Award with Richard Scheele.

Reaction to the award Schekman's first reaction was to be very surprised. He told reporters who called later, "I really want to say something grand, but now I am only surprised."

After putting down the phone, he was the first to report the good news to his father and said that he would celebrate this honor with his wife and colleagues.

Schekman said in an interview with AFP that this award is an affirmation of the three of them's nearly 40 years of work. The award will not change his life, and he will continue to invest in scientific research.

Rotman said: "I am very honored to receive the Nobel Prize. This is the most glorious award in the world. I am very excited at the moment, but the most exciting moment was when my cell vesicle experiment was successful in 1993." In addition, he said,

Research results are by no means achieved overnight, and most take years or even decades.

Asked whether winning the award would affect his work and research funding, Rothman replied: "I don't know, this is a new situation.".

On October 8, 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Sweden. The 81-year-old Belgian theoretical physicist Francois Engler in 2013 and the 84-year-old British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs won the prize.

Award-winning theoretical prediction of the Higgs boson.

The reason for the award is for the theoretical prediction of the Higgs boson.

The Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, is a boson with zero spin predicted by the standard model of particle physics.

It is the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model.

It can help explain why other particles have mass.

Introduction to the winner Engler: Born on November 6, 1932, he made important contributions in particle physics.

In 1964, Engler and the late Robert Blount jointly proposed the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs boson theory.

In the same year, Peter Higgs also published an article in Physical Review Letters proposing the Higgs mechanism theory.

Higgs: Born on May 29, 1929, Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh.

He is world-famous for the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs particle, and his Higgs mechanism theory was proposed in 1964.

Reacting to the award Engler said he was delighted to receive the award.

"At first I thought I didn't win this award because I didn't see the results announced." After Higgs learned the news about winning the award, he said he was a little overwhelmed with joy. In addition to thanking the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he especially thanked

With the support of family, friends and colleagues, he hopes that recognition of basic science will help increase outside attention to the value of theoretical research.

Commenting on Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said: "This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is about small things that make all the difference." Note: The Higgs boson, named after

Peter Higgs, also known as the "God Particle", is the last undiscovered elementary particle and the most important particle in explaining the mystery of the mass of matter.

It is assumed that the Higgs boson is the source of mass of matter. Other particles swim in the "ocean" composed of Higgs bosons, and are affected by them to generate inertia, and finally have mass.