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Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday with medicine award
This year's Nobel Prizes will begin on Monday with the medicine award at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
This year's Nobel Prize announcements will begin on Monday with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The medicine award opens this year's Nobel program.
The schedule continues with the physics prize on Tuesday, followed by chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. Those awards follow Monday's medicine prize.
The peace prize will be awarded on Friday. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will then be announced on Oct. 12, following the peace award.
This year's prize money is 12 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.2 million. That amount applies whether the recipient is an individual, a small group of laureates or an organization.
Last year's medicine winners were Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi. Their discoveries concerned peripheral immune tolerance, a pathway that keeps the immune system in check so it attacks germs rather than the body's own tissues. Experts described the findings as critical to understanding autoimmune diseases including Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.