Nobel Prizes

Nobel da Química 2006:
Roger D. Kornberg:
for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"


Nobel da Física 2006:
John C. Mather George F. Smoot:
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

Nobel da Medicina e Fisiologia 2006:
Craig C. Mello (o bisavó era português) and Andrew Z. Fire :
"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"