Friday, May 30, 2008

Nobel Laureates 2007

Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl

"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

Physiology or Medicine: Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies

"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

Literature:Doris Lessing

"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

Peace: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.

"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"

Economics: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design

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