Nobel medical prize kicks off week of announcements



Nobel Prize for medicine starts a week of
announcements in Stockholm, Sweden.

-- A week of Nobel Prize announcements begins
Monday in Sweden with the prize for physiology or
medicine.
Monday's ceremony at the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm will be followed by the announcement of the
physics prize on Tuesday, the chemistry prize
Wednesday and the economics prize October. 14.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo, Norway,
on Friday.
The prize for literature will be awarded on a date to be
announced later.
Each prize comes with 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.2
million).
Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel created
the prizes in 1895 to honor work in
physics, chemistry, literature and peace.
The first economics prize was awarded in
1969.
In 2012, the medical Nobel Prize was
awarded to Sir John B. Gurdon of England
and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan for work
on reprogramming cells. Their work paved the way for
treatment breakthroughs.

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