• Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Nobel Prizes kick off in Stockholm with laureate in medicine

Nobel Prizes kick off in Stockholm with laureate in medicine
The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize winners will begin on Monday with the category of medicine. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is to reveal to whom it will award this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Last year, it went to researchers David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, the discoverers of cell receptors that humans use to sense temperature and touch. Nobel Prizes are endowed with 10 million Swedish kronor ($900,000) per category. The Nobel Prize in Medicine traditionally kicks off the annual announcements of the most prestigious awards on earth at the beginning of October. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry will be announced, while on Thursday and Friday, the academy will announce the recipients for Literature and Peace, respectively. Finally, the prize for economics will be announced next Monday, although it is not based on the final will of prize donor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). The awards will be presented on the anniversary of Nobel's death on December 10.