Prize announcement
Announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, on 7 October 2019.
Interview about the awarded work
“Scientists often toss around this phrase ‘textbook discovery’. But I’d say this is really a textbook discovery”
Immediately after the announcement, Professor Randall Johnson, Member of the Nobel Assembly, was interviewed by freelance journalist Lotta Fredholm regarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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