3:29 p.m., Oct. 12, 2007--The University of Delaware's College of Arts and Sciences will hold a two-day symposium of talks by prominent UD faculty on the research and careers of the newly minted Nobel laureates for 2007. The symposium will be held from 12-2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17, and from 12-2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. Refreshments will be served.

The first day of the symposium will focus on Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences, while the second day will be dedicated to Nobel Prizes in literature, peace and economics.

After an introduction of the symposium by Thomas Apple, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Catherine Kirn-Safran, research assistant professor of biological sciences, will talk about Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for producing specific genetic alterations in mice.

At 1 p.m., Edmund Nowak, associate professor of physics and astronomy, will talk about Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance. And at 1:30 p.m., Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering, will talk about his doctoral adviser, Gerhard Ertl, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma and a cash award of about $1.5 million.

Article by Martin Mbugua