e-Bulletin (Nov 2015, Issue 79)

2015 Nobel Laureates and their Selected Books/Book Chapters are Held in the Library

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"

Title

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Author

   

  • Neutrinos in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology

Takaaki Kajita

Neutrinos in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"

Title

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Author

   

  • DNA repair and recombination
  • Telomeres and telomerase

Tomas Lindahl

  • DNA repair. Part A
  • DNA repair. Part B

Paul Modrich

  • Handbook of photosensory receptors
  • DNA-protein: structural interactions

Aziz Sancar

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015: William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura
"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"
Youyou Tu
"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"

Title

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Author

   

  • Inventive minds: creativity in technology
  • People, parasites, and plowshares: learning from our body's most terrifying invaders

William C. Campbell

  • The Search for bioactive compounds from microorganisms
  • Antibiotics current innovations and future trends
  • Enzyme technologies for pharmaceutical and biotechnological applications

Satoshi Ōmura

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015: Svetlana Alexievich
"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"

Title

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Author

   

  • Voices from Chernobyl
  • Writing war: the best contemporary journalism about warfare and conflict from around the world

Svetlana Alexievich

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015: Angus Deaton
"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"

Title

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Author

   

  • The great escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality
  • The analysis of household surveys: a microeconometric approach to development policy
  • Understanding consumption
  • Economics and consumer behavior
  • Guidelines for constructing consumption aggregates for welfare analysis

Angus Deaton

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