Nobel Prize 2022: Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday. The Nobel Prize committee stated that Svante Pääbo received the award “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
Interestingly, Svante Pääbo, the winner, is also the son of a Nobel laureate. Sune Bergström and his father shared a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1982 for “discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.”
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The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” pic.twitter.com/fGFYYnCO6J— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2022
Meanwhile, The winner was announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine kicked off a week of Nobel Prize announcements. The physics prize is awarded on Tuesday, followed by chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 will be announced on Friday, and the Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced on October 10.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,357).
Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo – this year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physiology or medicine – accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. pic.twitter.com/XO64ysoWnw
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2022
Svante Pääbo, this year’s Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine, accomplished the seemingly impossible by sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans.
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors in the human skin that sense temperature and touch and convert the physical impact into nerve impulses.
