Six AAAS Members Join the Ranks of Nobel Laureates

Three scientists who conducted trailblazing research into how the human body destroys unwanted proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Two of the scientists—Aaron Ciechanover of Israel and Irwin Rose, of California—are AAAS members, and they joined four members of the association who won Nobels in medicine and physics earlier this week.

The 2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded on 4 October to a pair of American medical researchers—AAAS members Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Linda S. Buck—for findings first published in the early 1990s on structure and organization of the human sense of smell. The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to a team of three Americans—David J. Gross of the University of California-Santa Barbara; H. David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena; and Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Both Gross and Wilczek are members of AAAS.

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