FACTBOX: Who won Nobel Prizes in 2007?

(Reuters) - The new season of Nobel awards begins Monday with the announcement of the winner of the prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Who won last year's prizes? Here are some details:

* PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:

-- Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the award for pioneering the creation of "designer mice," aiding the study of disease mechanisms.

* PHYSICS:

-- Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg won the prize for work that enabled hard disks to become drastically smaller for everything from laptops to iPods.

* CHEMISTRY:

-- Gerhard Ertl won the award for research into chemical reactions on a surface, helping in the development of cleaner cars and better fertilizers.

* LITERATURE:

-- British novelist Doris Lessing won the prize for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society's ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers.

* PEACE:

-- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the award for raising awareness about climate change.

* ECONOMICS:

-- American economists Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the prize for laying the foundations of an economic theory that determines when markets are working effectively.

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)