Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to two German optogenetics
The Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to the two Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel and the US researcher Karl Deisseroth.
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The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to the German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel and the American Karl Deisseroth for discoveries in optogenetics.
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Why It Matters
The Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded annually for outstanding discoveries in the field of medicine and physiology.
This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to the two Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel as well as the US researcher Karl Deisseroth. Their discoveries in the field of optogenetics are honored.
The Nobel Committee in Stockholm announced this on Monday afternoon.
Last year, three researchers from the USA and Japan were honored with the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their findings on the body's own control of the immune system.
This week the Nobel Prizes for Physics (October 6th), Chemistry (October 7th), Literature (October 8th), Peace (October 9th) and on Monday next week the Swedish Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences (October 12th) will also be announced. The latter has only been awarded since 1969 and is the only prize that does not go back to the Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
This year, the coveted awards are worth twelve million Swedish crowns – the equivalent of around one million euros – per prize category. They will be presented on the anniversary of the death of the prize founder Alfred Nobel, December 10th, in Stockholm and Oslo.
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded 125 years ago. So far, according to the Nobel Foundation, a total of 633 prizes have been awarded to 990 people, including 68 women, and 28 organizations - some have received it multiple times.
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Presentation of the prizes on December 10th in Stockholm and Oslo
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- Which specific applications of optogenetics were crucial?
