2007 - Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl - Male - 71 years
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
Affiliation: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Germany
Nobel Prize Winners of 2007
In 2007, 12 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 6 categories: Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.
2007 - Economic Sciences
Leonid Hurwicz - Male - 90 years
Birth country: Russia
Motivation: for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
Affiliation: University of Minnesota - USA
Eric S. Maskin - Male - 56 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
Affiliation: Institute for Advanced Study - USA
Roger B. Myerson - Male - 56 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA
2007 - Literature
Doris Lessing - Female - 87 years
Birth country: Iran
Motivation: that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny
2007 - Medicine
Mario R. Capecchi - Male - 70 years
Birth country: Italy
Motivation: for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
Affiliation: University of Utah - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA
Sir Martin J. Evans - Male - 66 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
Affiliation: Cardiff University - United Kingdom
Oliver Smithies - Male - 82 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
Affiliation: University of North Carolina - USA
2007 - Peace
Organization: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Country of Origin: USA
Motivation: 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. - Male - 59 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: 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
2007 - Physics
Albert Fert - Male - 69 years
Birth country: France
Motivation: for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sud - France; Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES - France
Peter Grünberg - Male - 68 years
Birth country: Czech Republic
Motivation: for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance
Affiliation: Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany
