2024-10-07 09:41:22
Since the first prize in 1901, a total of 227 people have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, including 13 women. Last year the prize went to the Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American immunologist Drew Weissman. They received it for their seminal work on mRNA technology, which enabled the incredibly rapid development of corona vaccines. From the perspective of the Nobel Prize Committee in Medicine, Karikó and Weissman’s work helped develop vaccines at an unprecedented pace, contain a devastating pandemic, and save millions of lives.
The announcement in the Physiology or Medicine prize category traditionally marks the start of the annual Nobel Prize season. Nobel Prize winners for the physics and chemistry categories will be chosen on Tuesday and Wednesday, before the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday: it is the only Nobel Prize that is not awarded in the Swedish capital Stockholm, but in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
The Nobel Prize for Economics will be awarded in Stockholm at the beginning of next week. It is the only one of the awards that does not date back to the will of the inventor of dynamite and prize donor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
This year too, the prizes are endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (almost 970,000 euros) per category.
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