On October 12, 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was given jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Vice President Al Gore. The IPCC expressed its surprise and gratitute in a press release. A number of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were authors of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). The LBNL press release can be viewed here. Two LBNL scientists, Lynn Price and Ernst Worrell, were lead authors of the Industry chapter of Working Group III's AR4 report on Mitigation. Stephane de la Rue du Can of LBNL was a contributing author for the industry chapter.