Nobel Prize 2022 : Sweden’s Svante Pabo awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine This Year
Nobel Prize 2022 : The Nobel Prize for the year 2022 has been announced. Sweden’s Svante Pabo has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this year. He was awarded this honor for his discovery on the ‘Evolutionary Evolution of Humans’.
In fact, he has been awarded this award for his discoveries related to the genome of the extinct hominin and human evolution. Let us tell you that this award is considered to be the most prestigious award in the world of science. It is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Last year’s award winners included David Julius and Ardem Patputian. Their discovery was based on how the human body senses temperature and touch.
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What is given in the Nobel Prize?
Talking about the Nobel Prize, according to the Indian amount of one crore Swedish kronor, a cash amount of about Rs 7.31 crore will be provided.
Prize money given by the will of Alfred Nobel
These awards will be given to the winners on December 10. Actually, then amount is given from a will left by the Swedish inventor Alfred Noble, who founded the prize. Alfred Noble died in 1895.
Who is Swante Pabo?
Svante Pabo is a Swedish geneticist, specializing in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
Announcing the prize, the Nobel Prize Committee said, “Through his pioneering research, Svante Pabo has accomplished something that seems impossible.”
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Sequencing the genome of Neanderthals, extinct relatives of present-day humans. They also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova.’
Fields of Nobel Prize
By the way, like every year, this year also, apart from medicine, the Nobel Prize will give in the field of literature, physics, chemistry. On one hand the Nobel Prize in Physics will announce tomorrow, while on Wednesday the name of a person will announce in Chemistry.
Then on Thursday someone will also award the Nobel Prize in the field of literature. Apart from this, then Nobel Peace Prize will announce on Friday and the Economics Prize will be given on 10 October. It is also important to know that whoever is get the Nobel Prize, he is given a gold medal and an amount close to 9 lakh dollars.
