Who are Brian Kobilka, Robert Lefkowitz, Alvin Roth, Lloyd Shapley and Mo Yan? What do they have in common. Two electronic resources (e-resources) at the TCC Library website can answer these questions.
All five are 2012 Nobel Prize winners, announced in October. Kobilka and Lefkowitz won the prize in chemistry. Roth and Shapley won the prize for economic sciences. Yan (the pseudonym for writer Guan Moye) won the prize in literature.
You can learn about the winners of the prize in chemistry and economic sciences at the Biography in Context database by Gale.
Kobilka and Lefkowitz studied how the human body uses protein receptors to sense outside conditions and sends messages to human cells.
Roth and Shapley’s work on market design and matching theory has helped matched marriage partners and has helped match doctors to hospitals, public schools to students, and organ donors to recipients.
Gale's Literature Criticism Online has a detailed biography of Yan, a novelist, and a critical view of his combination of magical realism with the graphic oppression and brutality of mid-20th Century village life in China.
You can access the Gale e-resources from the Library homepage (http://library.tulsacc.edu ) by clicking on the yellow Reference tab. (authored by Demetrius B. Images from Gale)
