Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. will celebrate the achievements of the 2014 Nobel laureates by making a selection of content from the 2014 winners free to access until the end of the year.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Professors John O'Keefe, of University College London, UK, May-Britt Moser, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and Edvard I. Moser, of University of Science and Technology, Norway, for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. All three laureates are Editorial Board Members of the Wiley journal Hippocampus and all have published with Wiley.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Professors Isamu Akasaki, of Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura, of University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. All three laureates are Wiley authors having published well over 150 papers in Wiley's Physica Status Solidi family of journals as well as other Wiley titles.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Eric Betzig, of Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA; Stefan W. Hell of Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; and William E. Moerner of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
The 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014 was awarded to Jean Tirole of Toulouse 1 Capitole University, France, for his analysis of market power and regulation. Jean Tirole serves on the Advisory Board of Journal of the European Economic Association, his latest Wiley published research appearing in The RAND Journal of Economics in 2014.
To celebrate the achievements of the Nobel laureates, Wiley will be making a selection of content from this year's winners free to access until the end of the year. Interested parties may visit the individual announcements on the Wiley Press Room to access content.
