STOCKHOLM — STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel prizes award season begins Monday with the announcement by a panel on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm of the winner of this yr’s medication award.
Final yr, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medication went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines in opposition to COVID-19 that have been crucial in slowing the pandemic.
The medication prize has been awarded 114 occasions to a complete of 227 laureates — the title given to winners. Solely 13 girls have gained been awarded the prize that carries a money award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
The laureates are invited to obtain their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s dying.
Nobel bulletins proceed with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize shall be introduced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.
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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.