The Nobel Prize in Physics
Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

The Nobel Prize in 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"

The Nobel Prize in Literature
Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

The Nobel Peace Prize
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) 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 counteract such change"

The Prize in Economic Sciences
Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"