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Nobel prize winners(2005 to 2010)
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Mandeep, B.A.LL.B 3rd
yr, MITS
YEAR 2005
John L Hall born on August 21, 1934 is
an American physicist
Theodor W. Hansch born on
October 30, 1941 is an German
physicist
They both shared 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
for their work in precision spectroscopy
Roy J. Glauber Roy Jay Glauber born September 1, 1925 is an American theoretical physicist
He was awarded Nobel prize for his contribution to the quantum theory of “Optical Coherence”
Mohamed El Baradei
born June 17, 1942 is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat. He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Mohamed El Baradei
and the IAEA were
jointly awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize
in 2005
John Robin Warren born on 11 June 1937 is
an Australian pathologist
He was awarded Nobel prize for the discovery of bacterium
Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall born 30 September 1951 is
an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate
in Physiology or Medicine. Marshall is well-known for
proving that the bacterium Helicobacter
pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers.
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film.
2005
Robert J.Aumann born on June 8, 1930 is an Israeli-American mathematician
Thomas Crombie Schelling born on 14 April 1921 is an American economist
2005
Robert J. Aumann and Thomas Crombie Schelling received the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economics in 2005 for their work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis
Richard Royce Schrock (born 4
January 1945) is an American chemist
and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the metathesis reaction used
in organic chemistry
They shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for their work from the early 1970s in the area of olefin metathesis
Yves Chauvin (born October 10, 1930) is
a French chemist
Robert Howard Grubbs (born 27
February 1942) is American chemist
Year 2006George F. Smoot (born february 20,1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement "of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."
Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist
He is Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his
work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite
(COBE) with George Smoot.
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi
economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to
help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus
and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize
Craig Cameron Mello (b. October
18, 1960) is a Portuguese-
American biologist
They were awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ,for the discovery of RNA interference
Andrew Zachary Fire (b. April 27,
1959) is an American biolog
ist
He was awarded a
nobel prize in
literature and his
work has sold over
seven million
books in more than
fifty languages
Ferit Orhan
Pamuk (b. 7 June 1952),
generally known simply
as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist
2006
Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr. (b.July 26, 1933) is an American economist. The Sveriges Riksbank prize in Economic sciences in Memory of Alferd Nobel 2006 was awarded to him “for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy
Roger David Komberg (born April 24,1947) is an American biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA
Albert Fert (born 7
March 1938 ) is a French physicis
t
Peter Andreas Grünberg (b. 18 May 1939)
is German physicist
They both were awarded the
Nobel prize 2007 for their
discovery of giant magnetoresistance which brought
about a breakthrough
in gigabyte hard disks
2007
Albert "Al" Gore, Jr. (b. March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States(1993–2001), under President Bill Clinton
He has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body tasked with reviewing and assessing the most recent scientific, technical and socioeconomic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with Al Gore.
Oliver Smithies (born June 23, 1925) is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, for the invention of gel electrophoresis in 2007
2007
Sir Martin John Evans (b. 1 january 1941) is a British Scientist. He genetically modified and implanted it into adult female mice with the intent of creating genetically modified offspring, work for which he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize.
Mario Renato Capecchi (b. 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells.
Doris May Lessing (b. 22 october 1919) is a British writer. Her Novels include The Grass is Singing ,The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Eric S. Maskin (b. dec. 12, 1950)
is an American Economist
Roger B. Myerson(b. March 29, 1951)
is an American economist
Leonid Hurwicz (b. Aug.21, 1917)
was a Russian-American economist
They shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for their work on mechanism design.
2007
Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2008
Yoichiro Nambu ( born January 18, 1921) is a Japanese-born American physicist. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics
Toshihide Maskawa (b. February 7, 1940) is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
Makoto Kobayashi (born April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was
awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which
predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
2008