Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius received the Nobel for medicine on Monday. Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann won the prize for physics. Benjamin List and David MacMillan received the chemistry prize. Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, on Wednesday became only the second writer of color in sub-Suharan Africa ever to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. Finally, Dmitry Muratov and Maria Resssa received the Peace Prize on Friday. |
October 9 (DP.net).– All eight winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics and literature awarded in Sweden, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two winners in Norway have been announced this week. The 2021 Prize in Economic Sciences has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Monday 11 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest.
David Julius, of the University of California at San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, of Scripps Research at La Jolla, Calif., got the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their independent discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch that give us our ability to sense heat, cold and touch.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List, of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and to David W.C. MacMillan, of Princeton University, USA, for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a precise new tool for molecular construction.
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