Monday, October 08, 2007

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 Announced

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, 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"

For more info see the press release here

The Time line for the other announcements are as follows:
Physics - Tuesday, October 9, 11:45 a.m. CET (at the earliest)
Chemistry - Wednesday, October 10, 11:45 a.m. CET (at the earliest)
Peace - Friday, October 12, 11:00 a.m. CET
Economics - Monday, October 15, 1:00 p.m. CET (at the earliest)

Literature is still to be announced

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