Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes have been awarded every year since 1901 in the areas of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The Nobel Prizes are administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Winners of Nobel Prizes receive a medal, diploma, and cash.
The winners were announced in October, and the actual awards ceremony was held on December 10, 2006. The ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize (won this year by Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh) was held in Oslo, Norway; while the ceremony for the other Nobel Prizes was held in Stockholm.
| Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Muhammad Yunus (Efforts to create social and economic development from below) | |
| Grameen Bank | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| John C Mather (Discovery of the blackbody form and anistropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| George F Smoot (Discovery of the blackbody form and anistropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Roger D Kornberg (Studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Andrew Z Fire (Discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Craig C Mello (Discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA) | |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Orhan Pamuk (Discovery of new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Edmond S Phelps (Analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy) | |
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