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 are announced in October, with the actual awards ceremony held in December. The ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize is held in Oslo, Norway; while the ceremony for the other Nobel Prizes is held in Stockholm.
| Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Al Gore (For Efforts to disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change) | |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Albert Fert (For discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Peter Grunberg (For discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Gerhard Ertl (For his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Mario R Capecchi (For gene modifications in mice using embryonic stem cells) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Martin J Evans (For gene modifications in mice using embryonic stem cells) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Oliver Smithies (For gene modifications in mice using embryonic stem cells) | |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Doris Lessing (With visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Leonid Hurwicz (For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Eric S Maskin (For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Roger B Myerson (For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory) | |
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