Sweden’s Svante Pääbo wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on evolution
Stockholm — This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about human evolution.
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner on Monday at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
The medicine prize kicked off a week of Nobel Prize announcements. It continues on Tuesday with the physics prize, with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics prize on October 10.
Last year’s recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries about how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
The prizes have a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kronor (closer to 900,000 dollars) and are awarded on December 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.