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Laureates Honored and
Essay Winners Announced at Nobel Monument Ceremony
The names of the 2006 American Nobel Laureates were unveiled at a ceremony at the Nobel Monument in Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City on June 5, 2007. The same event featured the announcement of the three winners of the 2007 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest.
The inscription ceremony honored the addition onto the Monument of the names of the 2006 American Nobel Laureates – John C. Mather (Physics), George F. Smoot III (Physics), Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry), Andrew Z. Fire (Medicine), Craig C. Mello (Medicine), Edmund S. Phelps (Economics).
The program included remarks by Dr. Craig C. Mello as well as Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, Consul General of Sweden in New York, who also presented the three winners of the essay contest. The winners were awarded the grand prize – all-expenses-paid trips to the Nobel Week Festivities in Stockholm in December, including the Prize Award Ceremony and the world-famous Nobel Banquet.
The winners of the 2007 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest are:
Mingzhu Li
Winner Physics
High School of American Studies at Lehman College, The Bronx
Essay title: Niels Bohr and His Model of the Atom
The names of the 2006 American Nobel Laureates were unveiled at a ceremony at the Nobel Monument in Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City on June 5, 2007. The same event featured the announcement of the three winners of the 2007 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest.
The inscription ceremony honored the addition onto the Monument of the names of the 2006 American Nobel Laureates – John C. Mather (Physics), George F. Smoot III (Physics), Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry), Andrew Z. Fire (Medicine), Craig C. Mello (Medicine), Edmund S. Phelps (Economics).
The program included remarks by Dr. Craig C. Mello as well as Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, Consul General of Sweden in New York, who also presented the three winners of the essay contest. The winners were awarded the grand prize – all-expenses-paid trips to the Nobel Week Festivities in Stockholm in December, including the Prize Award Ceremony and the world-famous Nobel Banquet.
The winners of the 2007 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest are:
Mingzhu Li
Winner Physics
High School of American Studies at Lehman College, The Bronx
Essay title: Niels Bohr and His Model of the Atom
Melanie Plaza
Winner Chemistry
Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx
Essay title: Linus Pauling: Changing Chemistry and the World
William Rifkin
Winner Physiology/Medicine
Horace Mann School, The Bronx
Essay title: Andrew Fire and the Discovery of RNA Interference: Silence is
Golden
Click here for photos from the Inscription Ceremony on June 5, 2007
For more information on The Laureates of Tomorrow –
Nobel Essay Contest:
www.laureatesoftomorrow.org
