Nobel Laureates 2007

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"

Prize in Economics:

Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"