Nobel Prize 2022: The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” The award-giving organisation made the announcement on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
An entire week of Nobel Prize announcements begins with the medicine prize. Tuesday’s reward is for physics, followed by Wednesday’s for chemistry and Thursday’s for literature. The economics prize will be awarded on October 10 and the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday.
The rewards will be awarded on December 10 and come with a monetary payout of 10 million Swedish kronor, or roughly $900,000. The funds originate from a gift made by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor who founded the award and died in 1895.
The award is undoubtedly one of the most coveted in science. The Karolinska Institute in Sweden’s Nobel Assembly bestows it.
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It is the first of the awards for this year.
The Nobel prizes for achievements in science, literature, and peace were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and rich businessman Alfred Nobel; the economics prize was added subsequently.
Medical research has taken centre stage after Covid
Since the coronavirus epidemic, medical research has taken centre stage, with many people hoping that the creation of the vaccines that have helped society resume some semblance of normalcy may someday bear fruit.
Even still, it often takes years for a piece of research to be recognised, with committees tasked with choosing the winners trying to make a confident judgement about its entire worth in the midst of a field that is always crowded with rivals.
The Nobel feast, a celebration of old-world pomp and glitz after years of societal estrangement, should in any case return to Stockholm this year following a two-year break due to the pandemic.
Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the medical prize the previous year for their discovery of receptors in the skin that feel touch and temperature and translate the physical stimulus into nerve impulses.
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Numerous eminent scientists have won awards in the discipline in the past, most notably Alexander Fleming, who shared the 1945 prize for discovering penicillin, and Robert Koch, who won in 1905 for his research on tuberculosis. $1 is equal to 11.1067 Swedish crowns.
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