This week marks the annual announcement of the Nobel prizes for Physiology & Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economics. Throughout the week announcements of winners in each category will be announced. The Nobel Prize foundation press conferences will appear here as they are posted. REALscience will bring them to you as they occur. This is an exciting week in science. Be sure to listen to the recap podcast at the bottom of the post, under the last video.
Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine: Mario Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies
“for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”
Nobel Prize for Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg
“for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl
“for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”
Nobel Prize for Literature: Doris Lessing
“that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny”
Nobel Peace Prize: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold 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”
The Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson
“for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
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