Nobel Prize ticker 2024 Nobel Prize committee wakes winners in the middle of the night

The Nobel Prizes will be awarded again this week. The winners will be honored for: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace Efforts. You can find all the information at blue News.

This year's Nobel Laureates will be announced from October 7 to 14. Medicine will kick things off. The prestigious honors have been awarded in Stockholm and Oslo since 1901. The usual award ceremony takes place on December 10, the anniversary of the death of prize donor Alfred Nobel.

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12.23 p.m.

One Nobel Laureate awake, one not yet

One of this year's two Nobel Prize winners in Medicine had to get out of bed before he found out about his award - the other may not yet know about his good fortune.

"I was able to wake Gary Ruvkun," reported the Secretary of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, Thomas Perlmann, at the prize announcement in Stockholm. In the case of Victor Ambros, this was not immediately successful. "I left a message on his cell phone and hope that he will call me back soon."

In Ruvkun's case, however, Perlmann was lucky with his call. "His wife answered and it took a long time for him to come to the phone. He sounded very tired," said Perlmann. But when the prizewinner realized what it was all about, he was thrilled and happy - and so was his wife, who wanted to talk to him for quite a while, Perlmann said.

11.31 a.m.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. They receive the prize for the discovery of microRNA, as was announced on Monday.

According to the Nobel Committee, this is the discovery of a fundamental principle that regulates gene activity.

Ambros, born in Hanover (Germany) in 1953, currently works at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Ruvkun, born in Berkeley (USA) in 1952, is a professor at Harward Medical School in Boston.

Since 2023, the prize money has amounted to 11 million Swedish kronor, which corresponds to around 910,000 Swiss francs.

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The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. pic.twitter.com/rg3iuN6pgY

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2024

8.58 a.m.

The Swiss Nobel Prize winners for medicine

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has already been awarded nine times to Swiss or Swiss-foreign dual citizens. These were the winners:

1996: Rolf M. Zinkernagel for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells

1992: Edmond H. Fischer (CH/USA) for the discovery of certain molecular mechanisms that control metabolic processes

1978: Werner Arber for the discovery of enzymes that can cut strands of genetic material and their application in molecular genetics

1957: Daniel Bovet (CH/ITA) for findings on synthetic substances such as sulphonamides (antibiotics), antihistamines and muscle relaxants

1951: Max Theiler (CH/ZA/USA) for the development of a vaccine against yellow fever

1950: Tadeus Reichstein (CH since 1915) for discoveries concerning the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and their effects

1949: Walter Rudolf Hess for his findings on the diencephalon and how it regulates bodily processes such as breathing

1948: Paul Müller for the discovery of the powerful insecticidal effect of DDT

1909: Emil Theodor Kocher for his work on the functioning, diseases and surgery of the thyroid gland

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