Albert Fert (France) and
Peter Grünberg (Germany) "for the discovery of Giant
Magnetoresistance"
Chemistry:
Gerhard Ertl (Germany) "for
his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
Physiology or Medicine:
Mario R. Capecchi, (USA)
Sir Martin J. Evans (UK) and Oliver Smithies
(USA) "for their discoveries of principles for introducing
specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic
stem cells"
Literature:
Doris Lessing (UK) "that epicist of the
female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a
divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Peace:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
and Albert Arnold(Al) Gore Jr. (USA)"for their efforts to
build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to
lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
Prize in Economics:
Leonid Hurwicz,
(USA) Eric S. Maskin (USA) and Roger B. Myerson
(USA) "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design
theory"
