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World Scientific the exclusive publisher of Over 100 Titles by Nobel Laureates and on the Nobel Prizes New books by Nobel Laureates and on the Nobel Prizes 2021 Connecting Great Minds Philip W Anderson Sir Derek H R Barton Hans A Bethe Nicolaas Bloembergen Baruch S Blumberg Aage Niels Bohr Subrahmanyan Georges Charpak Chandrasekhar Aaron J Ciechanover Claude Leon N Cooper Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Richard Feynman Kenichi Fukui Murray Gell-Mann Cohen-Tannoudji Ivar Giaever Vitaly L Ginzburg David Gross Sir John B. Gurdon Lars Peter Hansen Alan J Heeger Niels K Jerne Takaaki Kajita H Gobind Khorana Lawrence R Klein Herbert Kroemer Rita Levi-Montalcini Harry M Markowitz Sir Nevill F Mott Ben Roy Mottelson Karl Alex Müller Books on the Nobel Prizes & Related Titles Econometrics in the Information Age: Theory THE NOBEL PRIZES 2017 and Practice of Measurement - Volume 6 Formerly Les Prix Nobel KLEIN’S LAST QUARTERLY edited by Karl Grandin (The Royal Swedish ECONOMETRIC MODEL OF THE Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden) UNITED STATES Published on behalf of the Nobel Wharton Quarterly Econometric Foundation. Model: Mark 10 The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook Edited by Shinichi Ichimura (Kyoto University, of the Nobel Foundation. This edition Japan), Soshichi Kinoshita (Nagoya University, provides extensive information about the Japan), Mitsuo Yamada (Chukyo University, 2017 laureates: their Nobel Prize lectures Japan) and their autobiographies, as well as This book presents Professor Lawrence R Klein and his group’s last quarterly presentation speeches and background about the Nobel festivities. econometric model of the United States economy that they had produced Nobel Laureates (2017): Physics – Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and at the University of Pennsylvania. This is the last econometric model that Kip S. Thorne; Chemistry – Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Lawrence Klein and his disciples have left after some 50 years of cumulated Richard Henderson; Physiology or Medicine – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael efforts of constructing the US economy model up to around 2000. It was Rosbash and Michael W. Young; Literature – Kazuo Ishiguro; Peace widely known as the WEFA Econometric Model Mark 10, and is the – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN); culmination of Professor Klein’s research which spans more than 70 years, Economic Sciences – Richard C. Thaler. and would please not only Professor Klein’s old students and colleagues, 520pp Mar 2020 but also younger students who have heard so much of Klein models but 978-981-120-083-0 US$128 £115 have yet to see the latest model in its complete and printed form. 978-981-120-084-7(pbk) US$68 £60 268pp Feb 2018 978-981-3229-93-8 US$108 £95 THE NOBEL PRIZES: CANCER, VISION AND THE GENETIC CODE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MODELING by Erling Norrby (The Royal Swedish A Volume in Honor of Lawrence R Klein Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Conference on Global Economic Modeling Sweden) Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 10 – 12 June 2015 This book is the fourth in a series of bestselling titles by the author on the Edited by Peter Pauly (University of Toronto, Canada) Nobel Prizes and life sciences. Very few One purpose of this volume — based on a Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine conference in recognition of the seminal impact have focused directly on the means of of Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences identifying and treating cancer. However, in 1966 the Prize Lawrence R Klein, whose pioneering work has recognized Peyton Rous, who had discovered that viruses can cause spawned the field of international econometric tumors in animals, and Charles Huggins who had introduced modeling — is to survey these developments hormone treatment of human cancers. The view on the role of from today’s perspective. viruses in cancer has shifted over time. These studies have given a comprehensive picture of the role of changes in the genetic material A second objective of the volume is to shed light on the wide range of in the progressive developments towards severe forms of cancers. attempts to broaden the scope of modeling on an international scale. Beyond new developments in traditional areas of the trade and financial 424pp Sep 2019 flows, the volume reviews new approaches to the modeling of linkages 978-981-120-085-4 US$88 £75 between macroeconomic activity and individual economic units, new research on the analysis of trends in income distribution and economic wellbeing on a global scale, and innovative ideas about modeling the interactions between economic development and the environment. NOBEL AND LASKER LAUREATES OF CHINESE 344pp Apr 2018 978-981-3220-43-0 US$148 £123 DESCENT In Literature and Science by Todd S Ing (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Keith K Lau (University of Hong Kong THE PROMISE OF SCIENCE Shenzhen Hospital, China), Hon-Lok Tang Essays and Lectures from (Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong), Modern Scientific Pioneers Angela T Hadsell & Laurence K Chan edited by Lorie Karnath (University of Colorado, USA) (Molecular Frontiers Foundation, Germany) The purpose of this book is to foster the pursuit This thought-provoking publication covers a of literature and science for people in the world. wide-range of innovative areas of research and The book attempts to narrate the struggles endured by the Laureates and technologies that are unlocking groundbreaking new the immense joy and awards garnered once their dreams became reality, potentials in science. It contains important scientific while at the same time, bringing about momentous benefits to humankind. information gleaned from the lectures of some of the Contents: Nobel Laureates: Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, Samuel Chao world’s experts in their respective fields. The book Chung Ting, Yuan Tseh Lee, Steven Chu, Daniel Chee Tsui, Xingjian Gao, Roger offers ‘exceptional scientific insights, oftentimes Yonchien Tsien, Charles Kuen Kao, Mo Yan (a pen name, ߡҶ); Moye Guan addressing challenges before they are even recognized as questions. (the real name, ϯᾡˠ), Youyou Tu; Lasker Laureates: Choh Hao Li, Min Chiu Chronicling the revolutionary ideas of Nobel Laureates, winners of Wolf Prize, Li, Yuet Wai Kan; Special Feature, Wolf Laureate: Chien-Shiung Wu US National Medal of Science and other notable scientists: Frances H. Arnold, Readership: General. Yuan Tseh Lee, Jack W. Szostak, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Robert Langer, Richard N. Zare, Paul Alivisatos, Arvid Carlsson and Jennifer Doudna. 250pp Aug 2018 978-981-4704-60-1 US$85 £71 180pp Feb 2019 978-981-4704-61-8(pbk) US$38 £32 978-981-3273-28-3 US$78 £70 3 Books on the Nobel Prizes & Related Titles TU YOUYOU AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE FIRST TRANSPLANT SURGEON ARTEMISININ The Flawed Genius of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel edited by Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang & Runhong Li (Peking by David Hamilton (St Andrews University, Scotland) University, China) “Well researched and highly readable, The First Transplant “The book’s value lies in showing Surgeon pulls off the difficult trick of re-evaluating Dr how groups of researchers, rather Alexis Carrel without ignoring his contentious beliefs and than mainly unnamed individuals, should prove of real interest to surgeons, historians and overcame the problems caused scientists.” by rigid, centralised control in a British Society for the History of Medicine country disrupted by the Cultural Revolution and with few sophisti- This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French- cated scientific resources.” born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and British Society for the gained America’s first Nobel Prize in 1912. His other History of Medicine contributions were the first operations on the heart, and the first cell culture methods. He was prominent in military Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the surgery in WW1, and in the 1930s, gained further fame when collaborating with the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology aviator Charles Lindbergh on an organ perfusion pump. for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe. This book traces the Readership: General public, transplant surgeons, vascular surgeons, historians. path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao’s 1964 608pp Oct 2016 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, 978-981-4699-36-5 US$70 £58 a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in 978-981-4699-37-2(pbk) US$36 £30 endemic regions. It chronicles the years of painstaking research to find effective anti-malarial drugs, and how an entry in a collection of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions gave Tu Youyou the clue which led her to NOBEL PRIZES AND NOTABLE DISCOVERIES successfully extract artemisinin from the plant, Artemisia by Erling Norrby (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden) annua. “In the current volume Norrby covers not only the ma- Gathering together information from a variety of sources jor prizes in Neuroscience given in the 1960s, but he also including first-hand accounts, this book describes the traces the history of neuroscience from its onset to almost contributions of the many organisations, scientists, doctors the present day. This is an extraordinary contribution to and countless others who played a part in the process of the Nobel Prize and to the intellectual history of modern discovery and clinical testing. An inspirational read for young biological science.” scientists. Includes the translation of Professor Tu Youyou’s Eric Kandel 2015 Nobel Lecture. Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000 200pp Nov 2016 978-981-3109-88-9 US$68 £56 “Have you ever wondered how the tight-lipped Nobel 978-981-3109-89-6(pbk) US$38 £32 Committee for Physiology or Medicine picks its winners? If so, your curiosity will be immensely satisfied when you read this book by Erling Norrby, a Karolinska Institute in- sider.