Nobel Laureates Speak Out for Imprisoned Scholar Ahmadreza Djalali
Posted November 25, 2020
A global consortium of 153 Nobel Laureates has issued a letter expressing concern for imprisoned disaster medicine scholar Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali. The consortium’s latest letter—they began writing on Dr. Djalali’s behalf in November 2017—was issued in light of news that Iranian authorities are preparing to carry out the death sentence against Dr. Djalali.
25th November 2020
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Dear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
Beginning in November 2017 I have written on behalf of a consortium of Nobel Laureates about the plight of a medical scholar, Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, who was arrested on an academic visit to Tehran in April 2016. We wrote again in 2018 and in 2019 and support continues to grow.
Attached is a list of 153 Nobel Laureates supporting this cause. We would urge you to attend to this case personally and make sure that Dr. Djalali is treated humanely and fairly and is released as soon as possible.
We respectfully request that you direct the Iranian authorities to allow Dr. Djalali to return home to his wife and children and continue his scholarly work for the benefit of mankind.
Yours sincerely,
Sir Richard Roberts Ph.D., F.R.S.
Name | Category | Prize Year |
Peter Agre | Chemistry | 2003 |
George A. Akerlof | Economics | 2001 |
Sidney Altman | Chemistry | 1989 |
Hiroshi Amano | Physics | 2014 |
Frances H. Arnold | Chemistry | 2018 |
Robert J. Aumann | Economics | 2005 |
Barry Clark Barish | Physics | 2017 |
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi | Medicine | 2008 |
J. Georg Bednorz | Physics | 1987 |
Paul Berg | Chemistry | 1980 |
J. Michael Bishop | Medicine | 1989 |
Gunter Blobel | Medicine | 1999 |
Sydney Brenner | Medicine | 2002 |
William C. Campbell | Medicine | 2015 |
Mario R. Capecchi | Medicine | 2007 |
Thomas R. Cech | Chemistry | 1989 |
Martin Chalfie | Chemistry | 2008 |
Steven Chu | Physics | 1997 |
Aaron Ciechanover | Chemistry | 2004 |
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio | Literature | 2008 |
J. M. Coetzee | Literature | 2003 |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | Physics | 1997 |
Elias James Corey | Chemistry | 1990 |
Mairead Maguire | Peace | 1976 |
Robert F. Curl Jr. | Chemistry | 1996 |
Johann Deisenhofer | Chemistry | 1988 |
Peter C. Doherty | Medicine | 1996 |
Shirin Ebadi | Peace | 2003 |
Gerhard Ertl | Chemistry | 2007 |
Andrew Z. Fire | Medicine | 2006 |
Edmond H. Fischer | Medicine | 1992 |
Joachim Frank | Chemistry | 2017 |
Jerome I. Friedman | Physics | 1990 |
Leymah Roberta Gbowee | Peace | 2011 |
Andre Geim | Physics | 2010 |
Walter Gilbert | Chemistry | 1980 |
Sheldon Glashow | Physics | 1979 |
Paul Greengard | Medicine | 2000 |
Carol W. Greider | Medicine | 2009 |
David J. Gross | Physics | 2004 |
Robert H. Grubbs | Chemistry | 2005 |
Roger Guillemin | Medicine | 1977 |
Sir John B. Gurdon | Medicine | 2012 |
John L. Hall | Physics | 2005 |
Jeffrey Connor Hall | Medicine | 2017 |
Serge Haroche | Physics | 2012 |
Oliver Hart | Economics | 2016 |
Leland H. Hartwell | Medicine | 2001 |
Harald zur Hausen | Medicine | 2008 |
Richard Henderson | Chemistry | 2017 |
Dudley R. Herschbach | Chemistry | 1986 |
Avram Hershko | Chemistry | 2004 |
Jules A. Hoffmann | Medicine | 2011 |
Roald Hoffmann | Chemistry | 1981 |
H. Robert Horvitz | Medicine | 2002 |
Michael Houghton | Medicine | 2020 |
Robert Huber | Chemistry | 1988 |
Tim Hunt | Medicine | 2001 |
Louis J. Ignarro | Medicine | 1998 |
Elfriede Jelinek | Literature | 2004 |
Brian D. Josephson | Physics | 1973 |
William G. Kaelin Jr. | Medicine | 2019 |
Takaaki Kajita | Physics | 2015 |
Eric R. Kandel | Medicine | 2000 |
Tawakkol Karman | Peace | 2011 |
Wolfgang Ketterle | Physics | 2001 |
F.W. de Klerk | Peace | 1993 |
Klaus von Klitzing | Physics | 1985 |
Brian K. Kobilka | Chemistry | 2012 |
Roger D. Kornberg | Chemistry | 2006 |
J. Michael Kosterlitz | Physics | 2016 |
Finn E. Kydland | Economics | 2004 |
Yuan T. Lee | Chemistry | 1986 |
Robert J. Lefkowitz | Chemistry | 2012 |
Anthony J. Leggett | Physics | 2003 |
Jean-Marie Lehn | Chemistry | 1987 |
Michael Levitt | Chemistry | 2013 |
Tomas Lindahl | Chemistry | 2015 |
Robert E. Lucas Jr. | Economics | 1995 |
Eric S. Maskin | Economics | 2007 |
John C. Mather | Physics | 2006 |
Michel Mayor | Physics | 2019 |
Daniel L. McFadden | Economics | 2000 |
Craig C. Mello | Medicine | 2006 |
Robert C. Merton | Economics | 1997 |
Hartmut Michel | Chemistry | 1988 |
Patrick Modiano | Literature | 2014 |
Paul L. Modrich | Chemistry | 2015 |
William E. Moerner | Chemistry | 2014 |
Edvard Moser | Medicine | 2014 |
May-Britt Moser | Medicine | 2014 |
Gerard Mourou | Physics | 2018 |
Herta Muller | Literature | 2009 |
Kary B. Mullis | Chemistry | 1993 |
Robert A. Mundell | Economics | 1999 |
Alice Munro | Literature | 2013 |
Ferid Murad | Medicine | 1998 |
Erwin Neher | Medicine | 1991 |
Sir Paul Nurse | Medicine | 2001 |
Yoshinori Ohsumi | Medicine | 2016 |
Douglas D. Osheroff | Physics | 1996 |
Orhan Pamuk | Literature | 2006 |
James Peebles | Physics | 2019 |
Arno Penzias | Physics | 1978 |
Edmund S. Phelps | Economics | 2006 |
William D. Phillips | Physics | 1997 |
John C. Polanyi | Chemistry | 1986 |
H. David Politzer | Physics | 2004 |
Stanley B. Prusiner | Medicine | 1997 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | 2009 |
Jose Ramos-Horta | Peace | 1996 |
Charles M. Rice | Medicine | 2020 |
Sir Richard J. Roberts | Medicine | 1993 |
Jean-Pierre Sauvage | Chemistry | 2016 |
Randy W. Schekman | Medicine | 2013 |
Richard R. Schrock | Chemistry | 2005 |
Gregg L. Semenza | Medicine | 2019 |
Phillip A. Sharp | Medicine | 1993 |
K. Barry Sharpless | Chemistry | 2001 |
Christopher A. Sims | Economics | 2011 |
Vernon L. Smith | Economics | 2002 |
George P. Smith | Chemistry | 2018 |
Hamilton O. Smith | Medicine | 1978 |
Wole Soyinka | Literature | 1986 |
A. Michael Spence | Economics | 2001 |
Thomas A. Steitz | Chemistry | 2009 |
Sir James Fraser Stoddart | Chemistry | 2016 |
Horst L. Stormer | Physics | 1998 |
Donna Strickland | Physics | 2018 |
John E. Sulston | Medicine | 2002 |
Jack W. Szostak | Medicine | 2009 |
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | Physics | 1993 |
Kip Stephen Thorne | Physics | 2017 |
Mario Vargas Llosa | Literature | 2010 |
Harold E. Varmus | Medicine | 1989 |
Sir John E. Walker | Chemistry | 1997 |
J. Robin Warren | Medicine | 2005 |
Arieh Warshel | Chemistry | 2013 |
Steve Weinberg | Physics | 1979 |
Rainer Weiss | Physics | 2017 |
M. Stanley Whittingham | Chemistry | 2019 |
Carl E. Wieman | Physics | 2001 |
Eric F. Wieschaus | Medicine | 1995 |
Torsten N. Wiesel | Medicine | 1981 |
Frank Wilczek | Physics | 2004 |
Jody Williams | Peace | 1997 |
Oliver E. Williamson | Economics | 2009 |
Robert Woodrow Wilson | Physics | 1978 |
David J. Wineland | Physics | 2012 |
Sir Gregory P. Winter | Chemistry | 2018 |
Kurt Wuthrich | Chemistry | 2002 |
Akira Yoshino | Chemistry | 2019 |
Michael W. Young | Medicine | 2017 |