Today begins “Nobel Week”, that is, the announcement of the names of Nobel Prize winners in various fields.
Oku.Azaccording to information provided by prizenobel.org.
It is reported that Nobel Week will open with the announcement of the name of the laureate in the field of medicine and physiology in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
Winners of other awards will be announced soon.
According to the information, the winners in Physics will be announced on October 8, in Chemistry on October 9, in Literature on October 10 and the name of the winner of the Peace Prize will be announced on October 11 in Oslo, the capital of Norway.
The first day of next week will conclude Nobel week with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize.
“The name of the winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, created by the Swedish State Bank in 1968, will be determined on October 14,” the information says.
From cancer to evolution: who are the favorites for this year’s Nobel Prize?
Candidates
The Nobel committees do not announce anything about the candidates for the prize or those who nominated them until the last moment. Experts speculate on undisclosed names.
Swedish experts have been thinking for several years that the American Mary-Claire King, who discovered the hereditary breast cancer gene BRCA1, has a chance of being awarded.
This nomination also mentions the name of Stephen Rosenberg, a research pioneer in the field of cancer immunotherapy in the United States.
According to scientists from the American company Clarivate, Jonathan Cohen and Helen Hobbs can receive this award “for their research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which leads to the creation of new drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.”
“Clarivate” also mentions among its favorite neurobiologists the American Ann Graybill, the Japanese Okihide Hikosaka and the British-German researcher Wolfram Schultz. They can receive an award for “physiological studies of the basal ganglia, the control center for movement and behavior, including learning.”
Other potential laureates include evolutionary biologists such as Davor Zolter, a Croatian scientist working in Germany, and Azim Surani, a Kenyan-British scientist. They could be awarded “for the discovery of genomic imprinting, which has deepened the understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development.”
