Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2008 Nobel Prize in Physics

Broken symmetry helps explain why the universe contains matter rather than nothing.

7 October 2008 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Zur Hausen showed that a virus causes cervical cancer, leading to vaccines against it, while Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier identified HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 1983.

6 October 2008 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Mechanism design theory helps design rules, markets and auctions so that they achieve their goals even when people act in their own interest.

15 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Peace Prize

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change brings together thousands of scientists to assess climate research, and the former American vice-president Al Gore has campaigned on the issue,...

12 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

The British writer, born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, is best known for The Golden Notebook.

11 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ertl showed how chemical reactions take place on surfaces, such as the catalytic converters in cars and the iron catalysts used to make fertiliser.

10 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics

The two physicists discovered independently in 1988 how tiny changes in magnetism could produce large changes in electrical resistance.

9 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Their methods for changing specific genes in mice, known as gene targeting, have allowed scientists to study the role of genes in health and disease.

8 October 2007 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Yunus, an economist, founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to lend small sums to poor people, especially women, who could not borrow from ordinary banks.

13 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Turkish novelist, whose books include My Name Is Red and Snow, is the first writer from Turkey to receive the prize.

12 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize