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 Their groundbreaking discoveries "have allowed us to understand how
heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that
allow us to perceive and adapt to the world around us," it said.
"This knowledge is being used to develop treatments for a wide range
of disease conditions, including chronic pain."
The more than century-old prize is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of
Sweden's Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns
($1.15 million).
The prizes, for achievements in science, literature and peace, were
created and funded in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and
businessman Alfred Nobel. They have been awarded since 1901, with
the economics prize first handed out in 1969.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine often lives in the shadow of the Nobels
for literature and peace
https://www.reuters.com/world/
europe/nobel-peace-prize-is-this-greta-thunbergs-year-2021-10-01,
and their sometimes more widely known laureates. But medicine has
been thrust into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some
scientists had suggested those who developed coronavirus vaccines
could be rewarded this year or in coming years.
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The pandemic continues to haunt the Nobel ceremonies, which are
usually full of old-world pomp and glamour. The banquet https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/nobel-prize-banquet-postponed-again-this-year-due-pandemic-2021-09-23
in Stockholm has been postponed for a second successive year amid
lingering worries about the virus and international travel.
Last year's prize https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-medicine-idUSKBN26Q1CN
went to Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice and Briton Michael
Houghton for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes
cirrhosis and liver cancer.
($1 = 8.7272 Swedish crowns)
(The story has been corrected to fix title of award-giving body)
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander, Niklas Pollard in Stockholm, Ludwig
Burger in Frankfurt; additional reporting by Terje Solsvik in Oslo
and Simon Johnson, Supantha Mukherjee and Anna Ringstrom in
Stockholm, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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