2007 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Gerhard Ertl

for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces

Economic Sciences

Leonid Hurwicz

for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

Eric S. Maskin

for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

Roger B. Myerson

for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

Literature

Doris Lessing

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

Peace

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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

Albert Arnold (Al) 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

Physics

Albert Fert

for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance

Peter Grünberg

for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance

Physiology or Medicine

Mario R. Capecchi

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

Sir Martin J. Evans

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

Oliver Smithies

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