Physiology or Medicine:
The reasons for the selection last year were:
Capecchi: Interviewed in Science Watch, July/August 1993. All three joint winners of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Capecchi and Smithies received Gairdner Award in 1993 (Smithies also won for another contribution in 1990). March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 to Capecchi and Smithies. Lasker's inclusion of Evans seems warranted, since the Nobel can go to three. Without gene targeting, the field would look very different - a good reason for the Nobel.
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Mario R. Capecchi: One-third of the prize
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Distinguished Professor of Biology and Human Genetics and
Co-Chairman, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT; and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, July/August 1993. Joint winner (along
with Evans & Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of
Gairdner Award in 1993. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with
Smithies)
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Sir Martin Evans: One-third of the prize
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Director of the School
of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University,
Cardiff, Wales, UK. Joint winner (along with Capecchi
& Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
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Oliver Smithies: One-third of the prize
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Excellence Professor, Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel
Hill, NC. Joint winner (along with Capecchi & Evans) of 2001 Albert
Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 1993 and
1990. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with Capecchi)
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Physics
The reasons for the selection last year were:
Fert and Gruenberg made simultaneous discoveries and explained the effect. Fert presented with Gold Medal of the CNRS 2003. Gruenberg was awarded the German Future Prize for Technology and Innovation by the German Federal President in 1998, European Patent Office Inventor of the Year for 2005, and European Inventor of the Year 2006.
Albert Fert: One half the prize "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Professor of Physics, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) isi.highlycited.com.
ESI Rank: Among top 1% of physicists according to total citations for period January 1996-April 2006. Presented with Gold Medal of the CNRS 2003.
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Peter Gruenberg: One half the prize "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Professor, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany) Awarded the German Future Prize for Technology and Innovation by the German Federal President in 1998. European Patent Office Inventor of the Year for 2005.
Distinction: European Inventor of the Year 2006.
Chemistry:
Economics
Leonid Hurwicz:
"One third of the prize "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
"
Regents’ Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Eric S. Maskin:
"One third of the prize "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
"
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Roger B. Myerson:
"One third of the prize "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
"
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. He has been both a Guggenheim fellow and a Sloan Foundation research fellow.
Selected bibliography from University ogf Chicago Library.
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