Kyoto Prize 2002

TP MOrth Cases Prize 2002.

Index words: TP MOrth Cases Prize 2002 T. M. Hodge Birmingham Dental Hospital, UK Received 4 December 2002; accepted 28 April 2003 Introduction The TP MOrth Cases Prize is held annually at the British Orthodontic Conference and entry is open to those who have passed their Membership in Orthodontics examination during the 13 months prior to the Conference. The prize is awarded to the person show...

Advanced information on the Prize in Economic Sciences 2002

Until recently, economics was widely regarded as a non-experimental science that had to rely on observation of real-world economies rather than controlled laboratory experiments. Many commentators also found restrictive the common assumption of a homo oeconomicus motivated by self-interest and capable of making rational decisions. But research in economics has taken off in new directions. A lar...

Advanced information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 is to be shared between scientists working on two very important methods of chemical analysis applied to biological macromolecules: mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Laureates John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka (MS) and Kurt Wüthrich (NMR) have pioneered the successful application of their techniques to biological macromolecules. Biologi...

On the Work of Madhu Sudan: the 2002 Nevalinna Prize Winner

Madhu Sudan’s work spans many areas of computer science theory including computational complexity theory, the design of efficient algorithms, algorithmic coding theory, and the theory of program checking and correcting. Two results of Sudan stand out in the impact they have had on the mathematics of computation. The first work shows a probabilistic characterization of the class NP – those sets ...

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