2006 Nobel Prizes

The 2006 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.

Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm. ^{[1] [2]}

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
	John C. Mather (b. 1946)	American	"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"	[3]
	George Smoot (b. 1945)

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
	Roger D. Kornberg (b. 1947)	American	"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"	[4]

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
	Andrew Z. Fire (b. 1959)	United States	"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"	[5]
	Craig C. Mello (b. 1960)

Literature

Main article: 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

Awardee(s)
	Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952)	Turkey	"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"	[6]

Peace

Main article: 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Awardee(s)
	Muhammad Yunus (b. 1940)	Bangladesh	"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below."	[7]
	Grameen Bank (founded 1983)

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
	Edmund S. Phelps (b. 1933)	United States	"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"	[8]

Controversies

Physiology or Medicine

Some scientists observed that Fire and Mello's discoveries in RNA interference in Caenorhabditis elegans had similarly been previously studied by plant biologists like David Baulcombe and that more acknowledgement should've been given. ^[9]

References

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9. M. Bots; et al. (2006). "RNAi Nobel ignores vital groundwork on plants". Nature. 443 (7114): 906. Bibcode:2006Natur.443..906B. doi: 10.1038/443906a . PMID   17066009.