October, 2006
| 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) | |