William C. Campbell (scientist)

William C. Campbell
Born	William Cecil Campbell (1930-06-28) 28 June 1930 Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland
Residence	North Andover, Massachusetts^[1]
Citizenship	Ireland, United States
Nationality	Irish
Fields	Parasitic diseases
Institutions	Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research Drew University
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin University of Wisconsin
Known for	Avermectin
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015)

William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish born American biologist and parasitologist known for his discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.^[2] He worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.^[3]^[4]

Life 1
Personal life 2
Awards 3
References 4
External links 5

Life

Campbell was born in [7]) Campbell is the second Irish scientist to win a Nobel Prize, after Ernest Walton won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.^[8]

Personal life

His recreational activities include table tennis and kayaking.^[8]

Awards

2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – shared with Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou

References

^ ^a ^b Associated Press (5 October 2015). "Prof. William Campbell, of NJ, wins Nobel Prize in medicine".
^ "William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu win Nobel prize in medicine". The Guardian. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ Molin, Anna (5 October 2015). "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura, Youyou Tu". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ Ramelton Tidy Towns: William C. Campbell
^ "Member Directory | William Campbell". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ "Irish scientist wins Nobel Prize for Medicine". RTE News (rte.ie). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b Murphy, Darragh (9 October 2015). "Meet Ireland’s new Nobel Laureate, William C Campbell".

External links

Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti (RISE) at Drew University

Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1901–1925	1901 Emil Behring 1902 Ronald Ross 1903 Niels Finsen 1904 Ivan Pavlov 1905 Robert Koch 1906 Camillo Golgi / Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1907 Alphonse Laveran 1908 Élie Metchnikoff / Paul Ehrlich 1909 Emil Kocher 1910 Albrecht Kossel 1911 Allvar Gullstrand 1912 Alexis Carrel 1913 Charles Richet 1914 Róbert Bárány 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Jules Bordet 1920 August Krogh 1921 1922 Archibald Hill / Otto Meyerhof 1923 Frederick Banting / John Macleod 1924 Willem Einthoven 1925

1926–1950	1926 Johannes Fibiger 1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg 1928 Charles Nicolle 1929 Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1930 Karl Landsteiner 1931 Otto Warburg 1932 Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian 1933 Thomas Morgan 1934 William Murphy 1935 Hans Spemann 1936 Henry Dale / Otto Loewi 1937 Albert Szent-Györgyi 1938 Corneille Heymans 1939 Gerhard Domagk 1940 1941 1942 1943 Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy 1944 Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser 1945 Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey 1946 Hermann Muller 1947 Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay 1948 Paul Müller 1949 Walter Hess / António Egas Moniz 1950 Edward Kendall / Tadeusz Reichstein / Philip Hench

1951–1975	1951 Max Theiler 1952 Selman Waksman 1953 Hans Krebs / Fritz Lipmann 1954 John Enders / Thomas Weller / Frederick Robbins 1955 Hugo Theorell 1956 André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards 1957 Daniel Bovet 1958 Edward Tatum / Joshua Lederberg 1959 Severo Ochoa / Arthur Kornberg 1960 Frank Burnet / Peter Medawar 1961 Georg von Békésy 1962 Francis Crick / James Watson / Maurice Wilkins 1963 John Eccles / Alan Hodgkin / Andrew Huxley 1964 Konrad Bloch / Feodor Lynen 1965 François Jacob / André Lwoff / Jacques Monod 1966 Francis Rous / Charles B. Huggins 1967 George Wald 1968 Robert W. Holley / Har Khorana / Marshall Nirenberg 1969 Max Delbrück / Alfred Hershey / Salvador Luria 1970 Bernard Katz / Ulf von Euler / Julius Axelrod 1971 Earl Sutherland, Jr. 1972 Gerald Edelman / Rodney Porter 1973 Karl von Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen 1974 George Palade 1975 David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard Temin

1976–2000	1976 Baruch Blumberg / Daniel Gajdusek 1977 Roger Guillemin / Andrew Schally / Rosalyn Yalow 1978 Werner Arber / Daniel Nathans / Hamilton O. Smith 1979 Allan Cormack / Godfrey Hounsfield 1980 George Snell 1981 Roger Sperry / David H. Hubel / Torsten Wiesel 1982 Sune Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983 Barbara McClintock 1984 César Milstein 1985 Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 Stanley Cohen / Rita Levi-Montalcini 1987 Susumu Tonegawa 1988 George H. Hitchings 1989 J. Michael Bishop / Harold E. Varmus 1990 Joseph Murray / E. Donnall Thomas 1991 Erwin Neher / Bert Sakmann 1992 Edmond Fischer / Edwin G. Krebs 1993 Richard J. Roberts / Phillip Sharp 1994 Alfred G. Gilman / Martin Rodbell 1995 Edward B. Lewis / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard / Eric F. Wieschaus 1996 Peter C. Doherty / Rolf M. Zinkernagel 1997 Stanley B. Prusiner 1998 Robert F. Furchgott / Louis Ignarro / Ferid Murad 1999 Günter Blobel 2000 Arvid Carlsson / Paul Greengard / Eric Kandel

2001–present	2001 Leland H. Hartwell / Tim Hunt / Paul Nurse 2002 Sydney Brenner / H. Robert Horvitz / John E. Sulston 2003 Paul Lauterbur / Peter Mansfield 2004 Richard Axel / Linda B. Buck 2005 Barry Marshall / Robin Warren 2006 Andrew Fire / Craig Mello 2007 Mario Capecchi / Martin Evans / Oliver Smithies 2008 Harald zur Hausen / Luc Montagnier / Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 2009 Elizabeth Blackburn / Carol W. Greider / Jack W. Szostak 2010 Robert G. Edwards 2011 Bruce Beutler / Jules A. Hoffmann / Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously) 2012 John B. Gurdon / Shinya Yamanaka 2013 James Rothman / Randy Schekman / Thomas C. Südhof 2014 John O'Keefe / May-Britt Moser / Edvard Moser 2015 William C. Campbell / Satoshi Ōmura / Tu Youyou

2015 Nobel Prize laureates

Chemistry	Tomas Lindahl (Sweden, United Kingdom) Paul L. Modrich (United States) Aziz Sancar (Turkey, United States)

Literature	Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)

Peace (2015)	Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)

Physics	Takaaki Kajita (Japan) Arthur B. McDonald (Canada)

Physiology or Medicine	William C. Campbell (Ireland, United States) Satoshi Ōmura (Japan) Tu Youyou (China)

Economic Sciences	Angus Deaton (United Kingdom, United States)

Nobel Prize recipients

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William C. Campbell (scientist)