Elsevier Honors the 2012 Nobel Laureates

Elsevier Honors the 2012 Nobel Laureates PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, October 18, 2012 AMSTERDAM, October 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nobel tribute website provides free access to laureate research on cellular pluripotency, quantum optics, transmembrane receptors, and market design Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of a Nobel Prize tribute website in honor of eight 2012 Nobel Laureates, providing free access to their research published by Elsevier. The 2012 Laureates will be honored at the Nobel Prize Ceremony on December 10 in Stockholm. "I'd like to congratulate all winning 2012 Nobel Laureates on their unique accomplishments," says Ron Mobed, CEO, Elsevier. "Many of the Nobel Laureates over the years have been actively involved with Elsevier, and we are very gratified that we have had the opportunity to work in some way with those great scholars in the publication and dissemination of their ground-breaking research." Elsevier salutes these scholars, and is proud to recognize their revolutionary research and contributions to society: Medicine: The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.