The 2007 Nobel Prizes in Peace, Literature, Economics,  Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine 

• Prize: PEACE
  Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.

"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: LITERATURE
  Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy

Doris Lessing

"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

• Prize: ECONOMICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

• Prize: CHEMISTRY
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Gerhard Ertl

 "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

• Prize: PHYSICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

• Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
  Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute

Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies

 "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

2006 Noble Prizes

The 2006 Nobel Prizes in Peace, Literature, Economics,  Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine 

• Prize: PEACE
  Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute 

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank

"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

• Prize: LITERATURE
  Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy

Orhan Pamuk

"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"

• Prize: ECONOMICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Edmund S. Phelps

"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".

• Prize: CHEMISTRY
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

 Roger D. Kornberg

"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription".

• Prize: PHYSICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

John C. Mather and George F. Smoot

"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

• Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
  Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute

Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello

"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA".

2005 Noble Prizes  

The 2005 Nobel Prizes in Literature, Economics, Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine 

• Prize: LITERATURE
  Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy  

Harold Pinter

who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms. 

• Prize: ECONOMICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling

for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. 

• Prize: PEACE
  Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei

"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"  

• Prize: CHEMISTRY
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock

"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis".  

• Prize: PHYSICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Roy J. Glauber

"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

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John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch

"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique".  

• Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
  Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute

Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren

"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease".  

2004 Noble Prizes  

The 2004 Nobel Prizes in Economics, Peace, Literature,  Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine

• Prize: ECONOMICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 

Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott

"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles".

• Prize: PEACE
  Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute

Wangari Maathai

"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

• Prize: LITERATURE
  Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy 

Elfriede Jelinek

"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich s and their subjugating power"

• Prize: CHEMISTRY
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, and Irwin Rose

"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

• Prize: PHYSICS
  Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 

David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek

"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction "

• Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
  Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute 

Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck

"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"