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Last Updated: October 03, 2022, 15:24 IST
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Svante Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’.
The secretary of the Nobel Committee Thomas Perlmann announced the winner on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
The award for medicine is the first to be announced, kicking off a week of Nobel Prize announcements. On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize winner for achievements in the field of Physics will be announced followed by Chemistry on Wednesday and Literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday followed by the Nobel Prize for Economics on October 10.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian in 2021 for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
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