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The Laureates of Tomorrow — Nobel Essay Contest has been a three-year effort by the Consulate of Sweden in New York, The New York Academy of Sciences, and Nobelprize.org — the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation. Our goal has been to inspire and educate New York City high school juniors by encouraging their science research and learning by writing about a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine. Collaborators for the project included the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York.

The essay competition attracted hundreds of students eager to win the grand prize: an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden to attend the famous Nobel Banquet and other Festivities. This year's three winners will attend the ceremony in December 2007, after which the essay competition will be discontinued.

The partners of the essay competition wish to thank all the participating students, as well as educators, parents, and supporters of the essay competition.

2007
	Mingzhu Li, First Place Winner Physics High School of American Studies at Lehman College, The Bronx Niels Bohr and His Model of the Atom
	Melanie Plaza, First Place Winner Chemistry Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx Linus Pauling: Changing Chemistry and the World
	William Rifkin, First Place Winner Medicine SAR High School, The Bronx Andrew Fire and the Discovery of RNA Interference: Silence is Golden
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2006
	Gena Rozenberg, First Place Winner Physics Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx Eric A. Cornell and the Bose-Einstein Condensate
	Natasha Plotkin , First Place Winner Chemistry Hunter College High School, Manhattan Richard Ernst and the Transformation of NMR Spectroscopy
	Avishai Don, First Place Winner Medicine SAR High School, The Bronx Karl Landsteiner: Three Simple Letters that Saved Millions
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2005
	Alina Fradlis, First Place Winner Chemistry Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island Paul Berg: Redefining Our World Through Genetics
	Jedtsada Laucharoen, First Place Winner Physics Horace Mann School, The Bronx Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Liquefaction of Helium
	Michael Vishnevetsky, First Place Winner Physiology or Medicine Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Gunter Blobel, 1999 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology/Medicine and Pioneer in Protein Targeting Within/out of the Cell
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