2006 Nobel Prizes

none The 2006 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. 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.The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/award-video/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US2013-06-01 The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2006 https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2006-2006/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US Prizes Physics +Awardee(s)92x92pxJohn C. Mather (b. 1946)United States American"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081011142836/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/index.html 11 October 2008 9 October 2008 Nobel Foundation101x101pxGeorge Smoot (b. 1945) Chemistry Awardee(s)95x95pxRoger D. Kornberg (b. 1947)United States American"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081017150038/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/index.html 17 October 2008 6 October 2008 Nobel Foundation Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)94x94pxAndrew Z. Fire (b. 1959)United States"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2006/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20070818035546/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2006/index.html 18 August 2007 28 July 2007 Nobel Foundation100x100pxCraig C. Mello (b. 1960) Literature 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Awardee(s)122x122pxOrhan Pamuk (b. 1952)Turkey"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023713/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html 2008-10-16 2008-10-17 Nobel Foundation Peace 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Awardee(s)113x113pxMuhammad Yunus (b. 1940)Bangladesh"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below."The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081017151240/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/index.html 2008-10-17 2008-10-20 Nobel Foundation75x75pxGrameen Bank (founded by Muhammad Yunus in 1983) Economic Sciences Awardee(s)79x79pxEdmund S. Phelps (1933–2026)United States"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2006/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20081017151125/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2006/ 2008-10-17 2008-10-14 Nobel Foundation Controversies Physiology or Medicine Some scientists observed that Fire and Mello's discoveries in RNA interference in Caenorhabditis elegans had similarly been previously studied by plant biologists like David Baulcombe and that more acknowledgement should've been given.M. Bots etal 2006 RNAi Nobel ignores vital groundwork on plants Nature 443 7114 906 2006Natur.443..906B 10.1038/443906a 17066009 free References Category:Nobel Prize by year Category:2006 awards