Nobel Prize Week 2008

Nobel Prize Week 2008

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Fluorescent Bacteria Colonies on Agar Plate, courtesy of Roger Tsien, UCSD

A wide range of international scientists took home Nobel Prizes this week. Disease discovers, particle physicists and marine chemists rounded out this years winners.

And the winners are…

Physiology or Medicine
Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Luc Montagnier

Chemistry
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien

Physics
Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Peace Prize
Martti Ahtisaari

Economics (TBD Oct. 13)

Video Announcements

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Physics

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