10/3/2005

Australians win Nobel Prize in medicine for showing microbe causes ulcers
03.oct.05–Australian professor Barry Marshall uses a balloon to explain the bacterium helicobacter pylori during a visit to Japan …won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that bacteria, not stress, was the main cause of painful ulcers .…more…

Ok, this how the tortured logic of the headline works:
Japan has the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world and always ranked in the top three for ulcers. Nobel winner professor Barry Marshall is revered in Japan for coming up for any answer to one of Japan’s greatest problems—both medical and economic.

Now if only Japan win a few more Nobels for themselves.
Today’s score is: Japan 0, 4 to go

1949 Physics, Hideki Yukawa (won in the USA)
1965 Physics, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1/3 prize)
1987 Medicine, Susumu Tonegawa (MIT)
1968 Literature, Yasunari Kawabata
1974 Peace, Eisaku Sato (1/2 prize)
1981 Chemistry, Kenichi Fukui (1/2 prize)
1994 Literature, Kenzaburo Oe
2000 Chemistry, Hideki Shirakawa (1/3 prize)
2001 Chemistry, Ryoji Noyori
2002 Physics, Masatoshi Koshiba (1/4 prize)
2002 Chemistry, Koichi Tanaka (1/4 prize)

UPDATE:

Nobel Prize awarded for optics research
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 4 (UPI) —- Three scientists — two from the United States and one from Germany — were selected as winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in optics.Roy Glauber, 80, of Harvard University, was awarded half the 2005 honor while the other half is to be split between John Hall, 71, of the University of Colorado, and Theodor Hansch, 64, of the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany.