2015 Nuclear Fusion Prize acceptance speech

Bynum Prize 2015

The 2015 Medical History William Bynum Prize attracted a strong field of 12 entries, of which at least half are clearly of publishable quality. The four-person committee deliberated carefully on the essays. A small cluster stood out, necessitating a second round of deliberations. First prize was awarded to the essay by Lori Jones of the University of Ottawa, entitled ‘When Medical Texts Double ...

George C Williams Prize 2015

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Anthropology and Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, Durham, UK and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA *Corresponding author. Center for Infecti...

COAP 2015 Best Paper Prize

Each year, the editorial board of computational optimization and applications (COAP) selects a paper from the preceding year’s publications for the Best Paper Award. In 2015, 92 papers were published by COAP. The recipients of the 2015 Best Paper Award are Qi Huangfu of the FICO Xpress Team and Julian Hall of the University of Edinburgh for their paper “Novel update techniques for the revised s...

Wallenberg Prize acceptance speech. The future of biology: reason for concern?

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739, is an independent organisation whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy takes special responsibility for the natural sciences and mathematics, but endeavours to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines. The cells’ toolbox for DNA repair “for mechanistic studi...