Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize

Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize One week from today on Monday, October 8 the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this years Nobel Prizes. Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former MIT faculty member or alum has won a Nobel every year since 1993. So this year, just for fun, Im doing a poll.   Which MIT professor is your pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The nominees come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical order, listed with the Nobel they might win and why they might win it: Alan Guth (Physics) Cosmic inflation On the blogs: My advisor won $3 million Jerry Hausman (Economics) Econometrics / Hausman test Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and incentives On the blogs: Holmstrom, et al. Richard Hynes (Medicine) Cell adhesion Eric Lander (Medicine) Human genome mapping On the blogs: Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times Robert Langer (Medicine) Drug delivery systems | Tissue engineering On the blogs: Rubbing elbows Stephen Lippard (Chemistry) Bioinorganic chemistry / Metallointercalators Stephen Ross (Economics) Arbitrage Pricing Theory Robert Weinberg (Medicine) Oncogenes On the blogs: Profiles in Courage Cast your vote now on the MIT Admissions Facebook page!