Copyright 2020 Jacquelyn Martin. All rights reserved.

FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 record photograph of a Nobel Prize medal. The Nobel Prize successful Medicine is owed to beryllium awarded connected Monday Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

STOCKHOLM – The archetypal of the 2021 Nobel Prizes is announced Monday with the naming of the winner, oregon winners, successful the tract of physiology oregon medicine.

A sheet astatine the Karolinska Institute successful Stockholm volition denote the recipient aft 11:30 a.m. (0930 GMT).

Last year's prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the deadly illness and tests to support the scourge from spreading though humor banks.

The Nobel Assembly often commends basal science, but applicable applications are besides sometimes recognized. This could boost the chances of those progressive successful processing vaccines against the coronavirus getting the prize.

Ad

The prestigious grant comes with a golden medal and 10 cardinal Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize wealth comes from a bequest near by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died successful 1895.

The different prizes are for outstanding enactment successful the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.

___

Read much stories astir Nobel Prizes past and contiguous by The Associated Press astatine https://www.apnews.com/NobelPrizes

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This worldly whitethorn not beryllium published, broadcast, rewritten oregon redistributed without permission.