2007 Nobel Prize Winners
- Physics: Albert Fert (France) and Peter
Grünberg (Germany) for "the discovery of giant magnetoresistance,"
the technology used to read data on hard disks
- Medicine: Mario R. Capecchi (U.S.), Sir Martin J.
Evans (U.K.), and Oliver Smithies (U.S.) for "their discoveries of
principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the
use of embryonic stem cells"
- Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl (Germany) for "his studies
of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
- Literature: Doris Lessing (U.K.) "that epicist of the
female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has
subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny"
- Peace: Al Gore (U.S.) and the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Switzerland) 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 (U.S.), Eric S. Maskin
(U.S.), and Roger B. Myerson (U.S.) "for having laid the foundations
of mechanism design theory"
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