Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 2006: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Roger D. Kornberg
for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
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Medicine
Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello
for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
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Physics
John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation