Three Joint Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: US's Alter and Rice, UK's Horton

Dr. Harvey Alter of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Professor Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, and Professor Charles Rice of Rockefeller University, who were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden announced on the 5th (local time) that three individuals?Harvey Alter and Charles Rice from the United States, and Michael Houghton from the United Kingdom?have been selected as laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Committee explained that they were chosen for their contributions in discovering the hepatitis C virus, which has enabled the fight against diseases such as liver cancer and cirrhosis.

The laureates will receive a prize of 9 million kronor (approximately 1.09 billion KRW).

The Nobel Prize ceremony, held annually on December 10th in Stockholm, Sweden, will be replaced by an online event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded a total of 111 times from 1901 to this year, with no laureates selected during nine occasions (1915?1918, 1921, 1925, 1940?1942) including periods of World War I and II.

Up to this year, a total of 222 individuals have received the prize, of whom 12 are women.

The youngest laureate in history was Frederick Banting from Canada, who discovered insulin for diabetes treatment and received the prize at the age of 32 in 1923. The oldest laureate was Peyton Rous from the United States, who was awarded in 1966 at the age of 87 for discovering a virus that causes tumors.

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