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Nobel Prize in Medicine for the basis of corona vaccination
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded in Stockholm on Monday. It goes to two scientists who developed the basis for the corona vaccination.
The Nobel Prize was awarded to Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó and US researcher Drew Weissman.
They received the award for their discoveries on the modification of nucleoside bases, which enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19, according to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Nobel Prize endowed with around 930,000 euros
This year's Nobel Prizes are endowed with eleven million Swedish kronor (around 930,000 euros).
Nobel Prize week
The announcement in the Medicine and Physiology categories marked the start of Nobel Prize Week. The winner for physics will follow on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and economics on the following Monday.
The awards are traditionally presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder Alfred Nobel. Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the Swedish evolutionary researcher Svante Pääbo. He was honored "for his discoveries about the genomes of the ancestors of modern humans and human evolution".
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