Tuesday, October 9, 2007

2007 Noble prize for Physics and Medicine .. announced ..

Noble prize is the most honored prize in the world,which is awarded for people whose work most benefited humanity.Well the word Noble stands for the Swedish Industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel who invented Dynamite.So Noble prize is awarded every year as per his will,which states that the profit from his invention to be used to reward human ingenuity.So every year Noble prize is awarded for following fields Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Literature, Physiology & Medicine.
This years Physiology & Medicine Noble prize is awarded jointly to,
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.

And Physics Noble prize to :-
ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.

where other prizes will be announced second week of October.


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