2007 Nobel Prize

12

laureates

6

fields

2007

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics

Discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR). Key papers: M.N. Baibich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 61 (1988) 2472–2475 (Fert group) and G. Binasch et al., Phys. Rev. B 39 (1989) 4828–4830 (Grünberg group).

Albert Fert
Albert Fert

FranceFrance

Peter Grünberg
Peter Grünberg

GermanyGermany

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces

Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl

GermanyGermany

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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

Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Martin Evans
Martin Evans

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

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

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ZimbabweZimbabwe

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

2007 Nobel Peace Prize

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

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

WorldWorld

Al Gore
Al Gore

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz

United States of AmericaUnited States of America, PolandPoland

Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Roger Myerson
Roger Myerson

United States of AmericaUnited States of America