We're down to the Final 4 in Sigma Xi's Nobel Prize prediction contest, October Madness. Check out the Elite 8 results, then vote in the Final 4 round until midnight EDT on September 13, 2015. Your votes will decide who will make it through to the semi-finals!
Please invite your family, friends, and colleagues to vote. If you're using social media, our hashtag is #OctoberMadness. Check back with Keyed In next week for the semi-finals.
Elite 8 Results
*We had our first tie in the Elite 8 round's Physiology or Medicine bracket. Voters were split equally between Nicholas Lydon, Brian J. Druker, and Charles L. Sawyers for development of chronic myelogenous leukemia treatments and Joseph Altman and Elizabeth Gould for adult neurogenesis. For the tie-breaker, we looked at how the two would have done if matched in the Sweet 16 round. Altman and Gould received 28 votes compared to 22 votes given to Lydon, Druker, and Sawyers. Altman and Gould advance.
**We also had our first unanimous winners! Vera Rubin and Kent Ford for dark matter in the Physics bracket advance to the Final 4 with 100% of the votes from the Elite 8 round.
Final 4 Voting
Physiology or Medicine
Vote here for your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Final 4 October Madness Physiology or Medicine match-ups are:
1.
J. Craig Venter, Francis Collins, and Eric Lander for the human genome sequence
VS.
Joseph Altman and Elizabeth Gould for adult neurogenesis
2.
David J. Julius for investigations on the molecular basis for pain and thermosensation
VS.
Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Walter for unfolded protein response pathway
Chemistry
Vote here for your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Final 4 October Madness Chemistry match-ups are:
1.
Mildred Dresselhaus for carbon chemistry
VS.
Harry Gray, Stephen Lippard, Richard Holm for work in bioinorganic chemistry
2.
Ching W. Tang and Steven Van Slyke for organic light emitting diodes
VS.
Michael Grätzel for solar cells
Physics
Vote here for your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Final 4 October Madness Final 4 match-ups are:
1.
Vera Rubin and Kent Ford for dark matter
VS.
Margaret Geller for mapping the universe
2.
Geoffrey Marcy, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz for discovery of extrasolar planets
VS.
John Pendry, David R. Smith, and Ulf Leonhardt for discovery of negative refraction