* 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2007 )

The 2007 print version of the Britannica has 4, 411 contributors, many eminent in their fields, such as Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman, astronomer Carl Sagan, and surgeon Michael DeBakey.

In August 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars ' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide.

Dutch firm Akzo Nobel ( owner of Crown Berger paints ) bid £ 7. 2 billion (€ 10. 66 billion or $ 14. 5 billion US ) for ICI in June 2007.

* 1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

In October 2007, a team of scientists headed by DNA researcher Craig Venter and Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith announced that they plan to create the first artificial life form in history by creating a synthetic chromosome, which they plan to inject into the M. genitalium bacterium, with potential to result in an artificial species dubbed Mycoplasma laboratorium or Mycoplasma JCVI-1. 0 after the research centre in which it was created, the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States.

* 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1929 )

* 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.

In 2007 James D. Watson, Nobel laureate in biology, gave a controversial interview to the Sunday Times Magazine during a book tour in the United Kingdom.

" In 2009 the Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned South Africa that inflation targeting should be a secondary concern amid the global financial crisis of 2007 – 2009.

* October 2007: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies win the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on embryonic stem cells from mice using gene targeting strategies producing genetically engineered mice ( known as knockout mice ) for gene research.

* Received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for his joint efforts with the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) ( 2007 ).

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

The IPCC has received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 " for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

** Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2007 )

* April 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* November 10 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2007 )

** Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* Development of highest resolution global climate models and contributions to the International Panel on Climate Change which, together with former vice president Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.

** won the Cinema for Peace 2007 Best Director Award

After a temporary suspension due to nationwide political unrest in early 2007, the Peace Corps program in Guinea resumed operations at the end of July.

* Practice Random Acts of Kindness: Bring More Peace, Love, And Compassion published in 2007

In 2007, Demme's film Man from Plains, a documentary about former U. S. President Jimmy Carter's book tour in promotion of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.

* Bekoe, Dorina, and Parajon, Christina, Security Sector Reform in Liberia: Domestic Considerations and the Way Forward, United States Institute of Peace, April 2007

Map of the military expenditures as a percentage of GDP by country, CIA figures. Military spending in 2007, in USD, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Official websites said that '.. To this end the RSLAF has targeted 2007 as the base year to initiate a Company for Peace Support Operations for the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), the African Union and the UN.

In 2007 it founded a " World Peace Center " in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital city.

Starting in 2007, the church sponsored a series of public events in various nations under the title Global Peace Festival.

In 2007, Musa Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan, at the time President of the 33rd session of the General Conference, UNESCO's supreme governing body, was granted the title Ambassador for Peace by the Unification Church at the General Conference ( United Nations ).

On October 9, 2007, Ono dedicated a new memorial called the Imagine Peace Tower, located on the island of Viðey, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavík in Iceland.

On October 9, 2007 Ono officially lit the Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island in Iceland, dedicated to peace and to Lennon.

* Hagedorn, Ann, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 )

Scripps had been a subscriber to an earlier news agency, also named United Press, that existed in the late 1800s, partly in cooperation with management of the original New York-based AP and partly in existential competition with two Chicago-based organizations also using the AP name ( as detailed at Associated Press and in AP's 2007 history, Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, cited below ).

In 2007, BBC Radio 4 produced a radio play by Martyn Wade called The Bringer of Peace, which is an intimate biographical portrait of Holst.

* In 2007, he was one of many co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) as well as to Al Gore.

As of April 2007, the Peace Corps had 58 volunteers working in Belize.

In the February 28th, 2007 all-star benefit reading of " The Gift of Peace " at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, he portrays a hopeful member of a struggling immigrant family, and plays alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Amy Brenneman, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr ..

In 2007, more than 20 PNNL scientists were recognized for their contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in equal parts with former Vice President Al Gore.