Nobel Prize

Scientific background Discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 When SARS-CoV-2 emerged in late 2019 and rapidly spread to all parts of the world, few thought that vaccines could be developed in time to help curb the increasing global disease burden. Yet, several vaccines were approved in…

English Press release 2023-10-02 has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 The discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines…

Swedish Pressmeddelande 2023-10-02 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2023 skall tilldelas Katalin Karikó och Drew Weissman för deras upptäckter rörande nukleosidbasmodifieringar som möjliggjorde utveckling av effektiva mRNA-vacciner mot covid-19 De belönade upptäckterna blev avgörande för utvecklingen av effektiva mRNA-vacciner mot covid-19 under den pandemi som drabbade världen i början av…

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B y now, I have lived in Northern California for more than half my life, but I remain a native New Yorker in temperament and humor. Born in 1955, I grew up in a seaside Brooklyn neighborhood − immortalized by Neil Simon’s play ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ – that’s been a landing pad for Eastern European…

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Professor Walter Rudolf Hess with his wife arrives to Bromma Airport, Sweden, for the Nobel Week, 6 December 1949.

Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1929. From left: Owen Willans Richardson, physics laureate 1928; Louis de Broglie, physics laureate 1929; Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, chemistry laureates 1929; Sir Frederick Hopkins, medicine laureate 1929 and Thomas Mann, literature laureate 1929.

Fritz Lipmann receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Lipmann’s son Steven admiring his father’s Nobel Prize medal after the award ceremony. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the…