e-Bulletin (Nov 2019, Issue 127)

2019 Nobel Laureates and Their Selected Books/Book Chapters/Journal Articles are Held in the Library

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019:
James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology."
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

Title

Call No.

Author

   

  1. The cosmological tests

P.J.E. Peebles

 

  1. Finding the big bang

P.J.E Peebles et al.

2.	Finding the big bang

  1. Dark matter

P.J.E. Peebles

  1. The natural science of cosmology

P.J.E. Peebles

4.	The natural science of cosmology

  1. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution

P.J.E. Peebles and Adi Nusser

 

  1. A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

 

  1. Exoplanets -- the beginning of a new era in astrophysics; A protagonist's perspective.

Michel Mayor and Davide Cenadelli

 

  1. A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star

Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor et al.

 

  1. Enhanced lithium depletion in Sun-like stars with orbiting planets

Michel Mayor et al.

 

  1. A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c

Didier Queloz et al.

 

  1. A map of the large day–night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet

Didier Queloz et al.

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019:
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."

Title

Call No.

Author

   

  1. Solid oxide fuel cell technology: principles, performance and operations

Kevin Huang and John B Goodenough

12.Solid oxide fuel cell technology : principles, performance and operations

  1. Rechargeable batteries: challenges old and new

John B. Goodenough

 

  1. Layered Molybdenum (Oxy)Pyrophosphate as Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

M. Stanley Whittingham et al.

14.Layered Molybdenum (Oxy)Pyrophosphate as Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  1. Development of the Lithium-Ion Battery and Recent Technological Trends

Akira Yoshino

 

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019:
William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"”

Title

Call No.

Author

   

  1. Histone demethylase KDM6A directly senses oxygen to control chromatin and cell fate

William G. Kaelin Jr. et al.

16. Histone demethylase KDM6A directly senses oxygen to control chromatin and cell fate

  1. Oxygen sensing by HIF hydroxylases

Christopher Schofield and Peter Ratcliffe

 

  1. Oxygen Sensing, Homeostasis, and Disease

Gregg L Semenza

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

Title

Call No.

Author

   

  1. Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

Peter Handke and Krishna Winston

19. Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

  1. On a dark night I left my silent house

Peter Handke and Krishna Winston

20. On a dark night I left my silent house

  1. Die Hornissen: roman

Peter Handke

21. Die Hornissen: roman

  1. 罵觀眾

Peter Handke, 韓瑞祥, 梁錫江, 付天海 and 顧牧

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."

Title

Call No.

Author

   

  1. Understanding poverty

Abhijit V Banerjee, Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookherjee

23. Understanding poverty

  1. Poor economics a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo

24. Poor economics a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

  1. 貧窮的本質: 我們為什麼擺脫不了貧窮

Abhijit V Banerjee, Esther Duflo and 景芳

25. 貧窮的本質 : 我們為什麼擺脫不了貧窮

  1. Handbook of economic field experiments

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

 

  1. Poor economics: Rethinking poverty & the ways to end it

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

 

  1. “Measuring Poverty”: Discussion

Michael Kremer

 

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