It's that time of year again, when the Nobel Prizes are announced-- the official announcements will be made starting next Monday. And, as usual, people are speculating about who will win, on both an amateur and professional basis.
Meanwhile, as we've done in the past, I will offer a valuable prize to anyone who predicts the winners of any of this year's Nobel prizes:
Leave a comment on this post predicting the winner(s) of one of this year's Nobel Prizes. Anyone who correctly picks both the field and the laureate will win a guest-post spot on this blog.
Rules and conditions are the same as last year. Comments must be posted by 11:59 pm Sunday, October 4 to be eligible. One entry per commenter per field, please.
Humanities & Social Science
Physical Science
Comments
I understand that Pete Seeger has been nominated for the Peace Prize. I have no idea what his chances are, but a win would be wonderful -- both for the environment and for recognition of the rights of everyone worldwide.
Posted by: chezjake | September 28, 2009 9:29 AM
I tip Emmy the Queen of Niskayuna for the Literature Prize ;)
Posted by: Thony C. | September 28, 2009 10:14 AM
Physics: Vera Rubin.
Chemistry: Harry Noller.
Posted by: Steve | September 28, 2009 10:25 AM
I've got a list somewhere of people I think should definitely win Nobel prizes, mostly in physics. Last year, the top pair on my list, Kobayashi and Maskawa finally won. Since somebody has suggested Vera Rubin, I'll suggest that she wins half the physics prize and the other half is split between the Toomre brothers, for their work on colliding galaxies and galactic evolution. Alas, Fritz Zwicky, the other pioneer in that area is long, long deceased.
Posted by: Brett | September 28, 2009 11:04 AM
Stefan Hell for physics.
Eric Betzig for physics.
John Pendry for physics.
All of these guys have done important work on overcoming the diffraction limit.
Posted by: Alex | September 28, 2009 11:25 AM
Stephen Hawking - in physics,
F. Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich - in chemistry
Posted by: Misha Lemeshko | September 28, 2009 11:51 AM
As much as I'm a big fan of Stephen hawking, I don't really see how he'd the prize. His contributions to mathematical physics have been enormous but Hawking radiation has yet to be observed.
Posted by: Josh | September 28, 2009 1:19 PM
Thomson Reuters 2009 Predictions:
http://scientific.thomson.com/nobel/
Posted by: David Pendlebury | September 28, 2009 2:08 PM
For Physics I'll predict it will be A. Geim and K. Novoselov
Posted by: Neil Robinson | September 28, 2009 2:39 PM
I will be PC and suggest a woman. Either Very Rubin for dark stuff, or Mildred Dresselhaus for nanotubes.
Posted by: Thomas Larsson | September 28, 2009 2:50 PM
Kimble, Wineland, and Zeilinger. Quantum info.
Posted by: perry | September 28, 2009 3:06 PM
Chemistry: George Whitesides
Only because he's the only person I've collaborated with who is realistically in the running.
Posted by: MRW | September 28, 2009 3:40 PM
Physics: Aharonov and Berry
Chemistry: Richard Zare
Posted by: Sujit | September 28, 2009 4:03 PM
For the last few years I've taken the long odds and guessed Stephen Hawking. Since we haven't yet seen any strong evidence for Hawking radiation, I'll go ahead and guess Guth and Linde for inflation.
Posted by: Stephen | September 28, 2009 4:19 PM
Physics: Aharonov and Berry (same pick as last year).
No Hawking until experimental observation of Hawking radiation. No Higgs until experimental observation of Higgs boson. No graphene b/c it's too soon.
Chemistry: Possibly Ijima, though Zare is a good one. Perhaps Whitesides?
Posted by: Douglas Natelson | September 28, 2009 10:13 PM
Chemistry: Michael Gratzel or Richard Heck
Posted by: ASG | September 29, 2009 9:13 PM
Same predictions as last year, except for the Physics Prize.
Physiology or Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn & Carol Greider
(Shinya Yamanaka will win eventually, but perhaps it is too soon.)
Chemistry: Harry Noller, Peter Moore & Thomas Steitz
Physics: Alain Aspect? & Anton Zeilinger?
(I'm ignorant about the field, but a prize for quantum measurement and quantum information seems possible.)
Posted by: HI | September 30, 2009 11:13 AM
Chemistry: Ada Yonath (ribosome)
Medicine: Akiro Endo (statins)
Posted by: Curious Wavefunction | September 30, 2009 4:23 PM
Chemistry: Zare and Moerner
Physiology or Medicine: Weinberg
Physics: Kleppner
Posted by: bvincent | September 30, 2009 11:12 PM
it's gonna be Genzel in physics. They completed a full orbit around the black hole in the galactic center!
Posted by: jonny the bonnie | October 1, 2009 5:59 PM
Either Physics or Chemistry: Geim & Novoselov
Economics: Nordhaus
Medicine: Burgdorfer
Posted by: Rahul Khopkar | October 1, 2009 9:29 PM
Just in:
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine! Congratulations!
Posted by: Cathy Sander | October 5, 2009 5:46 AM
Physics: Vera Rubin
Posted by: Thomas | October 5, 2009 11:29 AM
Physics: Wineland/Aspect/Zeilinger
Posted by: Jeff | October 6, 2009 12:32 AM
Chemistry- Professor Robert S. Langer MIT
Posted by: Jyoti Ballabh | October 6, 2009 9:22 PM
Economics: Paul Romer
Posted by: Chris Buzzard | October 2, 2011 6:42 AM