Nobel Prizes
Peace
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to count
Physiology or Medicine
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" Economic Sciences: Leonid Hurwicz , Eric S. Maskin and
Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
Physics
Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Literature
Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Pulitzer Prizes
Public Service
The Wall Street Journal • Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Oregonian, Portland • Investigative Reporting: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (AL) News • Explanatory Reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of the Los Angeles Times • Local Reporting: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald • National Reporting: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe • International Reporting: Staff of The Wall Street Journal • Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times • Commentary: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Criticism: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly • Editorial Writing: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News • Editorial Cartooning: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY • Breaking News Photography: Oded Balilty of Associated Press • Feature Photography: Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee •
Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) •
Drama
“Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire •
History
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) • Biography or Auto
biography
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday) •
Poetry
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) •
General Nonfiction
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) •
Music
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