Elsevier Celebrates Nine 2010 Nobel Laureates and Honors Achievements With Freely Available Prize-Winning Research

Tribute Website Provides Laureate Research on In-Vitro Fertilization, Revolutionary Processes in Physics and Chemistry, and Labor and Housing Market Theory

AMSTERDAM, October 27, 2010 - Elsevier, the leading scientific, technical and medical
publisher announced today the launch of a Nobel tribute website
(www.elsevier.com/nobel) to honor nine 2010 Nobel laureates and
provide free access to their research published by Elsevier. The 2010
Laureates will be honored at the Nobel Prize Ceremony on December 10 in
Stockholm.

"For more than half a century, the vast majority of Nobel
Laureates have published in Elsevier journals and books and served as editors
and editorial board members," said Youngsuk 'Y.S.' Chi, Vice Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Science & Technology for Elsevier. "We feel
privileged to have had the opportunity to work with these remarkable
scientists in the publication of their research."

Elsevier has published research from all nine researchers
honored from the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry and Economics. The
freely available research published by the Nobel Laureates with Elsevier is
available at www.elsevier.com/nobel. Elsevier salutes these scholars,
and is proud to recognize their revolutionary research and contribution to
society:

Medicine: Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for the development of human in vitro fertilization
(IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a
medical condition affecting more than 10 percent of all couples worldwide.
Dr. Edwards, who is now professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge,
founded the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online (
www.rbmojournal.com/ ) in 2000 and published it independently for 10
years. Having developed it and ensured its place among the leading journals
in the field of reproductive medicine, he began handing over the reins for
the journal in 2009, becoming Editor Emeritus of RBMOnline. In 2010 Elsevier
became the publisher of this innovative journal.

Physics: Andrew Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel
Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the
two-dimensional material graphene." Geim, Professor of Physics and Royal
Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor at the University of Manchester,
is an Advisory Board member to Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and
Nanostructures (
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600554/descripti
on#description ) and former Editorial Board member. Both have published many
of their own papers with Elsevier, and Geim has served as guest editor,
organizing several topical issues on graphene for Solid State Communications
(www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/230/description
#description).

Chemistry: Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium-catalyzed cross
couplings in organic synthesis." Heck, Professor at the University of
Delaware, has published in Inorganica Chimica Acta (
www.elsevier.com/locate/ica), the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
(www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/504090) and Tetrahedron Letters
(www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/233/description
#description). Negishi, Professor at Purdue University in Indiana, has
published in Heterocycles, Inorganica Chimica Acta (
www.elsevier.com/locate/ica), the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A:
Chemical (www.elsevier.com/locate/molcata), the Journal of
Organometallic Chemistry (www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/504090),
Polyhedron (www.elsevier.com/locate/poly), Tetrahedron (
www.elsevier.com/locate/tet), Tetrahedron Asymmetry (
www.elsevier.com/locate/tetasy) and Tetrahedron Letters
(www.elsevier.com/locate/tetlet).

Suzuki, Professor at Hokkaido University published one of his
first papers (www.tinyurl.com/2b8k28m) on Pd coupling in Tetrahedron
Letters (www.elsevier.com/locate/tetlet). He has also published in the
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (
www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/504090) and Tetrahedron (
www.elsevier.com/locate/tet).

Economics: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded jointly to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T.
Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with
search frictions." Their models help us understand the ways in which
unemployment, job vacancies and wages are affected by regulation and economic
policy. Besides publishing many of their own papers with Elsevier, Dale
Mortensen serves as an Advisory Board member for Review of Economic Dynamics
(www.elsevier.com/locate/red )and Peter Diamond is an Advisory Board
member for the Journal of Public Economics (
www.elsevier.com/locate/jpube).

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