The2007 Nobel Prizes were awarded by theNobel Foundation, based inSweden. Six categories were awarded:Physics,Chemistry,Physiology or Medicine,Literature,Peace, andEconomic Sciences.[1]
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled inOslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day inStockholm.[2][3]
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Albert Fert (b. 1938) |  French | "for the discovery ofgiant magnetoresistance" | [4] |
 | Peter Grünberg (1939–2018) |  German | ||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Gerhard Ertl (b. 1936) | German | "forhis studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces" | [5] |
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mario R. Capecchi (b. 1937) |  Italy | "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use ofembryonic stem cells." | [6] |
.jpg) | SirMartin Evans (b. 1941) |  United Kingdom | ||
.JPG) | Oliver Smithies (1925–2017) | United Kingdom | ||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.JPG) | Doris Lessing (1919–2013) | United Kingdom (born inIran) | "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny" | [7] |
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (founded 1988) | United Nations | "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-madeclimate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." | [8] |
 | Al Gore (born 1948) |  United States | ||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008) |  Poland | "for having laid the foundations ofmechanism design theory" | [9] |
 | Eric S. Maskin (b. 1950) | United States | ||
 | Roger Myerson (b. 1951) | |||
Ertl, who solely won the Chemistry Prize, showed both surprise and disappointment thatGábor Somorjai, a foundational pioneer in modernsurface science and catalysis, wasn't named for the prize alongside him.[10][11] Somorjai and Ertl had previously shared theWolf Prize for Chemistry in 1998. TheNobel Foundation's decision to exclude Somorjai was criticized in the scientific community.[12]