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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to three scientists, Harvey J. Alter (American), Michael Houghton (British) and Charles M. Rice (American), for discovering the hepatitis C virus, the Committee announced Monday. Nobel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries about how cells react and adapt to the availability of oxygen.
Tomorrow the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced and, on Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On Thursday the 8th the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded and on Friday the name of the new Nobel Peace Prize will be known.
The latest announcement will be made on October 12 and will determine the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Nobel prizes, the most prestigious in the world, awarded in the areas of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace, are now being announced, fulfilling a wish that the inventor of dynamite left in his will in 1895.
The Nobel prizes were born out of the desire of the Swedish scientist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) to bequeath much of his fortune to people who work for “a better world.”
The international prestige of the Nobel prizes is due, in large part, to the amounts awarded, which currently amount to 9 million Swedish crowns (about 830,000 euros).
Alfred Nobel determined his will in a will made in Paris in 1895, a year before his death.
According to the terms of the will, around 31.5 million crowns, equivalent to 2,200 million crowns today (203 million euros), were allocated to a fund rate whose interest should be redistributed annually “to those who, during the year, they have rendered the greatest services to humanity ”.
The will provided that the interest of the invested capital be distributed to the author of the most important discovery or invention of the year in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and the most outstanding work of idealist-inspired Literature.
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