Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Phelps showed how inflation and unemployment are linked over time, and how expectations shape the choices open to policymakers.

9 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kornberg showed in detail how information in DNA is copied so that it can be used to build proteins.

4 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Prize in Physics

Measurements made with NASA's COBE satellite, launched in 1989, supported the Big Bang theory and found tiny variations in the radiation left over from the early universe, the seeds of the...

3 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The two Americans discovered a way of switching off specific genes, known as RNA interference.

2 October 2006 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Prize in Literature

The British playwright, born in Hackney in 1930, is known for plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker and Betrayal.

13 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Using game theory, the two economists explained why some groups manage to cooperate while others fall into conflict.

10 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Peace Prize

The International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, inspects nuclear sites around the world.

7 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metathesis is a reaction in which chemical groups swap places.

5 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

Glauber laid the foundations of quantum optics, the study of light at the level of single particles, while Hall and Hänsch developed ways of measuring the frequency of light with extraordinary...

4 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The two Australian doctors showed that most stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterium and not by stress.

3 October 2005 · Source: The Nobel Prize