Nobel prizes in Science 2020 announced
New Delhi, October 08 (India Science Wire): Every year in early October, the
world is all ears as the committees in Sweden and Norway name the Nobel
laureates in a variety of prizes in the sciences, literature, economics, as well as
peace work. The Nobel prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards
given for intellectual achievement in the world. Since 1901, prizes in Physiology or
Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, literature and peace have been awarded. In 1968,
prize in Economic Sciences also got added to the list.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to
Harvey Alter of the US National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of the
University of Alberta, Canada, and Charles Rice of the Rockefeller University, USA,
“for the discovery of...
