Ubiquitin researchers win Nobel

How to Win the Nobel Prize?

October 2006 | Volume 4 | Issue 10 | e333 Based on the title—The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize—one might expect Peter Doherty’s new book to be a handbook targeted to the emerging group of anxious parents whose expectations for their youngsters’ achievements have reached the stratospheric level. In truth, this is a delightful history and series of essays by an affable Australian ve...

Ubiquitin at Fox Chase (Nobel lecture).

Nobel Committee Tags Ubiquitin for Distinction

It must be very difficult to serve on the committee to select Nobel Prize winners—to have to select one or two scientific advances amidst many outstanding discoveries, to have to choose the two or three key investigators (who may not be the most visible or most cited ones), and to have to sift through many nominations that extol the achievements of some candidates (but overlook those of others)...

Ten Simple Rules to Win a Nobel Prize

It is remarkable how many students, young faculty, and even senior faculty hanker after a Nobel Prize. Somehow, they think that it is possible to structure their scientific careers so that the culmination will bring this much sought-after honor. Some even think that as a Nobel laureate myself, I may have the key to success—some secrets that I can share and so greatly improve their odds of succe...

Artificial Intelligence to Win the Nobel Prize and Beyond: Creating the Engine for Scientific Discovery

artificial intelligence can deliver? What pushes the human race forward? Our civilization has advanced largely by scientific discoveries and the application of such knowledge. Therefore, I propose the launch of a grand challenge to develop AI systems that can make significant scientific discoveries. As a field with great potential social impacts, and one that suffers particularly from informati...