2007 Nobel Prize Winners Announced

The 2007 Nobel Prize Winners will be announced daily this week.  There is a rolling summary of the winners:

Medicine

Two Americans and one Briton honored for technique to manipulate mouse genes.

• Mario Capecchi - University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Oliver Smithies - University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Martin Evans - Cardiff University in England

Physics

Physicists share Nobel for work on hard drives, a first pratical application of nanotechnology.

• Albert Fert - French
• Peter Gruenberg  - German

Chemistry

Surface Chemist gets Nobel birthday gift for work that linked to our understanding of why ozon layer is thinning.

• Gerhard Ertl - Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany

Economics

TBA

Literature

TBA

Peace

TBA