Nobel Medal Winners For 2008

We are all aware of the Nobel Peace Prize, but there are also 5 other "Nobel Prizes" given out, for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economics. The winners of those coveted Nobel Medals have been announced. Check below for a list of winners, and the official reasons given for their awards from the Nobel Foundation.

October.09.2008 - George Valentine Corr, Blatant News Editor

Nobel Prize Announcements 2008:
get more info @ nobelprize.org

Physics: Yoichiro Nambu... "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics", and, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

Chemistry: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien... "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

Medicine: Harald zur Hausen... "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)"

Literature: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio... "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"

Peace: Martti Ahtisaari... "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

Economics: Paul Krugman... "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"

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