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Svante Pääbo receives 2022 award in physiology or medicine for genome discoveries including Neanderthals

Svante Paabo wins the prestigious prize for his discoveries on human evolution.

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history.

The Nobel Prizes for 2022 kickstarted with the Physiology or Medicine Nobel announcement

The prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.

The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It's anyone's guess…

When the Nobel Prizes are handed out each year, honorees each receive a medal and monetary prize. Even in the absence of these material goods, the honor of being a Nobel laureate persists as part of someone’s name or title, like a heroic epithet to recognize a life’s achievement.

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster

Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in Nobel Prizes.