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List of Nobel laureates who endorse Barack Obama is a comprehensive list of Nobel laureates who officially endorsed Barack Obama for the 44th President of the United States. They are not only Nobel laureates but also American citizens (or residents). Before the 2008 presidential election, 85 Nobel laureates (including 82 laureates in the science disciplines for chemistry, medicine and physiology, physics and economics) publicly endorsed Obama through various news media. This was the largest number of Nobel laureates to ever endorse a political candidate for office. The previous record was in 2004, when 58 Nobel laureates endorsed John Kerry for the 43rd President of the United States.
76 U.S. Nobel Prize-winning scientists signed an open letter to the American people
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=The open letter of endorsement=
The letter opens:
{{cquote|This year’s presidential election is among the most significant in our nation’s history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.
We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in supporting him.}}
And closes,
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"Senator Obama understands that Presidential leadership and federal investments in science and technology are crucial elements in successful governance of the world’s leading country. We hope you will join us as we work together to ensure his election in November."}}
=The signatories=
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- Alexei A. Abrikosov (condensed matter physics)
- Peter Agre (aquaporins)
- Sidney Altman (ribozymes)
- Philip W. Anderson (theoretical physics)
- Richard Axel (olfaction)
- David Baltimore (virus classification)
- Baruj Benacerraf (major histocompatibility complex)
- Paul Berg
- J. Michael Bishop
- Günter Blobel
- Nicolaas Bloembergen
- Michael S. Brown
- Linda B. Buck (olfaction)
- Mario R. Capecchi
- Martin Chalfie
- Stanley Cohen
- Leon Cooper
- James W. Cronin
- Robert F. Curl
- Johann Deisenhofer
- John B. Fenn
- Edmond H. Fischer
- Val Fitch
- Jerome I. Friedman
- Murray Gell-Mann (elementary particles)
- Riccardo Giacconi
- Ivar Giaever
- Walter Gilbert
- Alfred G. Gilman
- Donald A. Glaser
- Sheldon Glashow
- Roy J. Glauber
- Joseph L. Goldstein
- Paul Greengard
- David Gross (asymptotic freedom)
- Robert H. Grubbs
- Roger Guillemin
- John L. Hall
- Leland H. Hartwell
- Herbert A. Hauptman
- Dudley Herschbach
- Roald Hoffmann
- H. Robert Horvitz
- Louis Ignarro
- Eric R. Kandel
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Walter Kohn
- Roger Kornberg
- Leon M. Lederman (neutrinos)
- Anthony J. Leggett
- Roderick MacKinnon
- Craig C. Mello
- Kary Mullis
- Yoichiro Nambu
- Marshall Nirenberg
- Douglas D. Osheroff
- Martin L. Perl
- Stanley B. Prusiner
- Norman F. Ramsey
- Robert Coleman Richardson
- Burton Richter
- Irwin Rose
- Sherwood Rowland
- Oliver Smithies gel electrophoresis
- Richard R. Schrock
- George Smoot
- Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
- E. Donnall Thomas
- Charles H. Townes
- Roger Tsien
- Daniel C. Tsui (fractional quantum Hall effect)
- Harold Varmus
- James D. Watson
- Eric Wieschaus
- Frank Wilczek (asymptotic freedom)
- Robert W. Wilson
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Other U.S. Nobel laureates who have publicly endorsed Obama
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- Jimmy Carter
- Al Gore
- Paul Krugman
- Daniel McFadden
- Toni Morrison
- Edmund Phelps
- Amartya Sen
- Robert Solow
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
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See also
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- Milan Kundera spy charge in 2008: four Nobel laureates issued a statement of support for Kundera.
- GISAID in 2006: seven Nobel laureates signed a letter published in the journal Nature.
- Kansas evolution hearings in 2005: 38 Nobel laureates signed a letter to Kansas Board of Education.
- Restoring scientific integrity in policymaking in 2004: 49 Nobel laureates signed a petition.
- Humanism and Its Aspirations in 2003: 21 Nobel laureates signed the statement.
- Union of Concerned Scientists in 1997: 110 Nobel laureates signed the UCS petition for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
- Richard Feynman wrote his minority report, "Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle,” in 1986.
- Linus Pauling became a peace activist after World War II.
- Albert Einstein signed the Einstein-Szilárd letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939.
- Benjamin Franklin drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1753, he was awarded the world's oldest award for scientific achievement, the Copley Medal, which predates the Nobel Prize by 170 years.
- List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements, 2008
- List of Nobel Laureates by university affiliation
- List of Nobel Laureates by country
- Political positions of Barack Obama
External links
- [http://sefora.org/2008/09/25/61-nobel-laureates-in-science-endorse-obama/ 61 Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama]
- [http://www.physorg.com/news142748755.html Nobel prize laureate finds winning news on Internet]
- [http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/10/three_2008_nobe.html Three 2008 Nobel Laureates In Science Endorse Obama]