I thought, nothing like a little betting to spice up academic life!
Who's your pick (doesn't have to be on this list).
http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/092013/nobel-laureatesCHEMISTRY
A. Paul Alivisatos
Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
-and-
Chad A. Mirkin
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
-and-
Nadrian C. Seeman
Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry
New York University
New York, NY, USA
For contributions to DNA nanotechnology
Bruce N. Ames
Senior Scientist and Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
For the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity
M.G. Finn
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
-and-
Valery V. Fokin
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
-and-
K. Barry Sharpless
W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
For the development of modular click chemistry