By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-07 09:43:02 | Updated at 2024-10-07 12:35:50
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Nobel season opened on Monday with the Medicine Prize going to US duo Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA.
Laureates in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature are also set to be announced in Stockholm, Sweden, in the coming week.
The Peace Prize, the most highly anticipated of the awards and the only one announced in Oslo, Norway, will follow on Friday, with the Economics Prize wrapping things up on October 14.
Except for economics, the prizes were endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
The first awards were handed out in 1901, five years after Nobel’s death.
The medicine prize has been awarded 114 times to a total of 227 laureates. Only 13 women have won been awarded the prize that carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (US$1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator.
