Nobel Prize award season begins

Starts with medicine award, followed by physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, peace on Friday and economics on October 14

Stockholm: The Nobel prizes award season began on Monday with the announcement by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm of the winner of this year’s medicine award.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic.

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The medicine prize has been awarded 114 times to a total of 227 laureates — the title given to winners. Only 13 women have won been awarded the prize that carries a cash 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 receive their awards at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on October 14.