Week of Nobel Prize announcement begins with medicine award
STOCKHOLM โ The 2020 Nobel Prizes kick off Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, in the field of physiology and medicine. Often the Nobel Assembly recognizes basic science that has laid the foundations for practical applications in common use today. It is common for several scientists who worked in the same field to share the prize. The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1,118,000), courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. ___Read more stories about Nobel Prizes past and present by The Associated Press at https://www.apnews.com/NobelPrizes