måndag 10 december 2007

Nobel Prizes 2007

The Nobel Prize in Physics:

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

Albert Fert - France & Peter Grünberg - Germany
In 1901 the very first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

Gerhard Ertl - Germany

In 1901 the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacobus H. van 't Hoff for his work on rates of reaction, chemical equilibrium, and osmotic pressure.

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:

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

Mario R. Capecchi - USA & Sir Martin J. Evans - UK & Oliver Smithies - USA

In 1901, Emil von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy, particularly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature:

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

Doris Lessing - UK

The very first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to the French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, who in his poetry showed the "rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect".

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The Nobel Peace Prize:

"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"

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Geneva, Switzerland & Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. - USA

Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time.

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel:

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

Leonid Hurwicz - USA & Eric S. Maskin - USA & Roger B. Myerson - USA

The first Prize in Economics was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969

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