Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? by Matt McGann '00
Vote for your favorite MIT professor!
One week from today — on Monday, October 8 — the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year’s Nobel Prizes.
Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former MIT faculty member or alum has won a Nobel every year since 1993.
So this year, just for fun, I’m doing a poll. Which MIT professor is your pick to win a Nobel Prize this year?
The “nominees” come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical order, listed with the Nobel they might win and why they might win it:
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Alan Guth (Physics)
Cosmic inflation On the blogs: “My advisor won $3 million“ |
| Jerry Hausman (Economics)
Econometrics / Hausman test
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| Bengt Holmstrom (Economics)
Theory of the firm | Contracting and incentives On the blogs: “Holmstrom, et al.“ |
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Richard Hynes (Medicine)
Cell adhesion
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Eric Lander (Medicine)
Human genome mapping On the blogs: “Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times“ |
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Robert Langer (Medicine)
Drug delivery systems | Tissue engineering On the blogs: “Rubbing elbows“ |
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Stephen Lippard (Chemistry)
Bioinorganic chemistry / Metallointercalators
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Stephen Ross (Economics)
Arbitrage Pricing Theory
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Robert Weinberg (Medicine)
Oncogenes On the blogs: “Profiles in Courage“ |