Thursday, October 11, 2007

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner

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

Doris Lessing
United Kingdom

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner

"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

Gerhard Ertl
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Berlin, Germany

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics Winners

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

Albert Fert
Université Paris-Sud; Unité Mixte de Physique
CNRS/THALES
Orsay, France

Peter Grünberg
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich, Germany

Monday, October 08, 2007

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Winners

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

Mario R. Capecchi
University of Utah
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Salt Lake City, UT
USA

Sir Martin J. Evans
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom

Oliver Smithies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
USA