News from Nobelprize.org

October 23, 2007

The 2007 Nobel Prize announcements are over, leaving us with twelve new Laureates. For those with an interest in the statistics, that takes us to a grand total to 797 Laureates since the Prize’s inception in 1901. At 90 years old, Leonid Hurwicz, co-recipient of the Economics Prize, is the oldest ever new Laureate in the entire history of the Nobel Prize. And Doris Lessing, herself 88, becomes just the 34th woman to join the list of Laureates. Rather fittingly, Gerhard Ertl, the Chemistry Laureate for 2007, received the call from Stockholm on his birthday.

The range of awarded work across the six disciplines is somewhat daunting to grasp, transporting us from the sub-atomic world of electron spin to the global realm of human-induced climate change. But below we highlight a few of the many ways that Nobelprize.org tries to bring the Laureates, and their work, into clearer view.

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Adam Smith
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AND THE LAUREATES ARE …
Catch-up on all the announcements by reviewing the full list of awards across all six Prize disciplines.
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GOT A QUESTION?
We're offering visitors the chance to ask any, or all, of this year's Laureates a question, via our online submission form.
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GET ACQUAINTED
To help get you started, we've attempted to summarize each of this year's Prizes in a two minute 'Speed Read'. Get to know Literature Laureate Doris Lessing, for instance.
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"IT'S A MARVELLOUS CALL"
Mario Capecchi was a street child in wartime Italy and didn't learn to read and write until he was nine. Listen to his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in an example of one of the telephone interviews we record immediately after each announcement.
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FURTHER READING
Each of the science prize awarders releases supporting articles to explain the awarded work to a variety of different audiences. Here, for instance, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences makes Giant Magnetoresistance make sense.
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WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS ABOUT PEACE
After each announcement, Nobelprize.org interviews a representative of the Nobel Committee to find out more about the reasons behind the award. Here, Geir Lundestad explains why the Nobel Peace Prize went to the IPCC and Al Gore.
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TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE
Visitors to Nobelprize.org have also had the chance to pose their own questions to each of the Prize-Awarding Committee Secretaries. Their answers are revealing, as shown, for instance, in the Q&A session with Hans Jörnvall of the Medicine Committee.
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