October 8 - Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies along with Martin J. Evans will each share a third of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" – work that led to the creation of gene targeting, which is now used in virtually all areas of biomedicine. Capecchi and Smithies are members of the National Academy of Sciences, and Smithies is also a member of the Institute of Medicine.
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