Nobel Prizes 2007
Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl
"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
Economic Sciences
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Leonid Hurwicz
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Eric S. Maskin
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Roger B. Myerson
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Literature
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
Doris Lessing
"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Peace
- The Nobel Peace Prize
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"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
Al Gore
"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
Physics
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
Albert Fert
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Peter Grünberg
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Physiology or Medicine
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Mario R. Capecchi
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Sir Martin J. Evans
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Oliver Smithies
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"