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PHOTOThe 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Alter, 85, was born in 1935 in New York and graduated from the University of Rochester, where he continued to work for a time and then moved to Seattle. From 1961 he worked for the National Institutes of Health (Nih), except for a brief period when he worked at Georgetown University.
Rice (65) was born in 1952 in Sacramento and graduated in 1981 from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Since 1986 he has served at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. Since 2001 he has been teaching at the Rockefeller University in New York, where until 2018 he directed the Center for Hepatitis C Research.
British Houghton graduated in 1977 from King’s College London and later worked for GD Searle & Company and Chiron. Since 2010 she taught at the University of Alberta
Nobel week started today with the announcement of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine. The next scientific appointments are scheduled for October 6 with the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics and on Wednesday 7 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
As in the past, the announcements are broadcast online by the Nobel Foundation, in conjunction with the Karoliska Institute of Medicine in Stockholm and the headquarters of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Few attendance in the classrooms due to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic for the first time in its history, even the awards ceremony scheduled in early December will be virtual
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