2007 Nobel Prizes

none The 2007 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.October 15, 2007 FACTBOX: Who won the 2007 Nobel Prizes? https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/factbox-who-won-the-2007-nobel-prizes-idUSL15422775/ Reuters Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.2014-03-27 Photo gallery - The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2007 https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-peace-prize-award-ceremony-and-concert-2007/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US2013-06-01 Video Clip - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2007 https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2007-2007/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US Prizes Physics +Awardee(s)99x99pxAlbert Fert (b. 1938)France 1974 French"for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/index.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110805062614/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/index.html 5 August 2011 9 October 2007 Nobel Foundation109x109pxPeter Grünberg (1939–2018)Germany German Chemistry Awardee(s)91x91pxGerhard Ertl (b. 1936)Germany German"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023555/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/index.html 16 October 2008 6 October 2008 Nobel Foundation Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)114x114pxMario R. Capecchi (b. 1937)Italy United States"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20071011013755/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html 11 October 2007 28 July 2007 Nobel Foundation100x100pxSir Martin Evans (b. 1941)United Kingdom99x99pxOliver Smithies (1925–2017)United Kingdom United States Literature 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Awardee(s)115x115pxDoris Lessing (1919–2013)United Kingdom (born in Iran)"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081016025537/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html 2008-10-16 2008-10-17 Nobel Foundation Peace 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature Awardee(s)75x75pxIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (founded 1988)United Nations"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."The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081016025656/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/index.html 2008-10-16 2008-10-20 Nobel Foundation94x94pxAl Gore (born 1948)United States Economic Sciences Awardee(s)101x101pxLeonid Hurwicz (1917–2008)Poland United States"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023623/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/ 2008-10-16 2008-10-14 Nobel Foundation91x91pxEric S. Maskin (b. 1950)United States113x113pxRoger Myerson (b. 1951) Controversies Chemistry Ertl, who solely won the Chemistry Prize, showed both surprise and disappointment that Gábor Somorjai, a foundational pioneer in modern surface science and catalysis, wasn't named for the prize alongside him.Jacoby Mitch Surface Science's Sage – April 7, 2008 Issue – Vol. 86 Issue 14 – Chemical & Engineering News http://cen.acs.org/articles/86/i14/Surface-Sciences-Sage.html cen.acs.org10 October 2007 Birthday Boy Gets a Nobel https://www.science.org/content/article/birthday-boy-gets-nobel Somorjai and Ertl had previously shared the Wolf Prize for Chemistry in 1998. The Nobel Foundation's decision to exclude Somorjai was criticized in the scientific community.Noorden Richard Van 2007-10-10 Surface chemistry wins Nobel Prize https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/surface-chemistry-wins-nobel-prize/3003834.article Chemistry World References Category:Nobel Prize by year Category:2007 awards