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  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  is divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, and Jules A. Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg, France, for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity

  and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman, Rockefeller University, NYC, USA, for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
  Ralph Steinman died on September 30. This information reached the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet via the president of Rockefeller University at 14.30 CET on October 3, 2011. Earlier the same day, at 11.30 CET, they had announced the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine without knowing of Ralph Steinman’s death.
  Interview with Ralph Steinman (podcast) by the European Journal of Immunology and the related article in the journal: Dendritic Cells: Understanding Immunogenicity from October 2007.

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  Nobel Prize in Physics

  is awarded “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae” with one half to Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA,

  and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia, and Adam G. Riess, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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  Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  was awarded to Dan Shechtman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.

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^{Physiology/Medicine}

• Interview with Ralph Steinman by the European Journal of Immunology and the related article in the journal: Dendritic cells: Understanding immunogenicity
• Key articles on dendritic cells by Ralph Steinman and others published in the European Journal of Immunology since the Supplement on Breakthroughs in immunology include:
  • Targeting of LcrV virulence protein from Yersinia pestis to dendritic cells protects mice against pneumonic plague, Yoonkyung Do, Ralph M. Steinman et al.,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2010, 40 (10), 2791-2796
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.201040511
  • Some active areas of DC research and their medical potential,
    Ralph M. Steinman,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2010, 40 (8), 2085-2088.
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.201040733
  • HIV gag protein is efficiently cross-presented when targeted with an antibody towards the DEC-205 receptor in Flt3 ligand-mobilized murine DC,
    Leonia Bozzacco, Ralph M. Steinman et al.,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2010, 40 (1), 36-46.
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.200939748
  • The earliest intrathymic precursors of CD8α+ thymic dendritic cells correspond to myeloid-type double-negative 1c cells,
    Hervé Luche, Bernard Malissen et al.,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2011, 41 (8), 2165-2175.
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.201141728
  • Tolerance induction towards cardiac allografts under costimulation blockade is impaired in CCR7-deficient animals but can be restored by adoptive transfer of syngeneic plasmacytoid dendritic cells,
    Xiaosun Liu, Tim Worbs et al.,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2011, 41 (3), 611-623.
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.201040877
  • Dendritic cell-restricted CD80/86 deficiency results in peripheral regulatory T-cell reduction but is not associated with lymphocyte hyperactivation,
    Liat Bar-On, Steffen Jung et al.,
    Eur. J. Immunol. 2011, 41 (2), 291-298.
    DOI: 10.1002/eji.201041169

^Physics

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
  The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess
• Information of the Public by NobelPrize.org

The book below is recommended there

The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
Mario Livio

Wiley, New York, USA, 2001.
ISBN: 978-0-471-39976-6

It is out of print but available on demand and as an e-book

_Chemistry

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman, Israel Institute of Technology, for the discovery of quasicrystals