NOBEL PRIZES IN SCIENCE AND NSF CONNECTIONS

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Media Contact: David Hart
(703)292-7737/ dhart@xxxxxxx

For Immediate Release
Oct. 13, 2004

STATEMENT BY

DR. ARDEN BEMENT
ACTING DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

ON NOBEL PRIZES IN SCIENCE AND NSF CONNECTIONS

ARLINGTON, Va.- I am pleased to congratulate this year's Nobel
laureates in science for their much-deserved recognition. On
behalf of the American public, the National Science Foundation
(NSF) takes great pride in the remarkable achievements of this
year's laureates who have been supported by NSF grants throughout
their careers.

Of the 10 2004 Nobelists in science, six were supported by NSF at
some time in their careers. The Economics laureates, Finn Kydland
and Edward Prescott, received the prize for work funded by NSF.

Kydland and Prescott were awarded the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economics for their contributions to macroeconomics,
particularly in addressing the time-consistency problem in
formulating economic policy and in understanding the causes of
business cycles. Both Kydland and Prescott have long histories of
funding from NSF, which supported the Nobel-honored research.
With this year's announcement, NSF has supported 31 of the 55
laureates since the Economics prize was first awarded in 1969.

In Physics, laureates David Gross, David Politzer and Frank
Wilczek were honored for their work related to the strong force,
which binds quarks into protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an
atom. Both Wilczek and Politzer were supported by NSF graduate
fellowships while they conducted the Nobel-recognized research,
and NSF support for Gross spans many years, beginning at
Princeton University where Wilczek was his graduate student and
since the mid-1990s at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
NSF has supported the KITP since its creation in 1979 and
supported Wilczek when he was a member of the KITP in the 1980s.

In Physiology and Medicine, Richard Axel and Linda Buck were
honored for their research on the sense of smell. Axel had
previously been tapped by NSF in 1982 as one of the nation's
outstanding young scientists as the recipient of NSF's Alan T.
Waterman Award for devising a procedure for introducing genes
into mammalian cells.

Since 1950, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to more than 150 U.S.
and U.S.-based researchers  who have been supported by NSF grants
throughout their careers. Established "to promote the progress of
science," NSF supports fundamental research in many disciplines,
and the significance of and success in that mission is reflected,
in part, by the number of NSF-supported scientists recognized
with Nobel Prizes for their discoveries.

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For more information on this year's NSF-funded Nobel laureates,
contact: David Hart, 703-292-7737, dhart@xxxxxxx
  


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