The Nobel Prize Medal.

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Fernando Vergara / AP / SIPA

Kicking off the famous awards, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded this Monday in Stockholm (Sweden) to Briton Michael Houghton and Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice.

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the award ceremony, scheduled for December 10 in Stockholm, was canceled, a first since 1944. The winners, who will share nearly one million euros, will receive their prize in their country of residence.

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