- Title: Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza win 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize
- Date: 7th October 2019
- Summary: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (OCTOBER 7, 2019) (REUTERS) MEMBERS OF NOBEL ASSEMBLY ARRIVING FOR ANNOUNCEMENT SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE NOBEL COMMITTEE FOR PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE, THOMAS PERLMANN, AT LECTERN (SOUNDBITE) (English) SECRETARY-GENERAL OF NOBEL COMMITTEE FOR PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE, THOMAS PERLMANN, SAYING: "The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."
- Embargoed: 21st October 2019 10:48
- Keywords: Nobel Prize for Medicine 2019 Nobel prices Nobel Assembly announcement award prize science cells
- Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- City: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- Country: Sweden
- Topics: Life Sciences,Science
- Reuters ID: LVA001B03LAO7
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- Story Text: Scientists William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to the availability of oxygen, the award-giving body said on Monday (October 7).
The trio of one British and two U.S. scientists will share a prize of 9 million Swedish crowns ($913,000).
Medicine is the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year. The prizes for achievements in science, peace and literature have been awarded since 1901 and were created in the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.
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