China News Service, October 5th. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, on the 5th local time in Stockholm, Sweden, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced, Harvey J. Alter and Michel Horton (Michael Houghton) and Charles M. Rice (Charles M. Rice) jointly won the award for "discovering the hepatitis C virus."

On October 5th, Stockholm local time, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced.

Image source: Screenshot of the official website of the Nobel Prize

["Number" said Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]

  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 110 times, and a total of 219 people have won awards.

  Among the winners of this award, 12 are women.

Among them, Chinese female pharmacist Tu Youyou won the award in 2015.

On December 10, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize Dinner was held. Nobel Prize winners, members of the Swedish royal family and many celebrities attended the event.

  The youngest winner is Canadian doctor Fred Banting, who won the prize in 1923 for discovering insulin, when he was only 32 years old.

  The oldest winner is the American virologist Francis Peyton Routh, who was 87 years old when he won the prize in 1966.

  Two pairs of "husband and wife files" won at the same time: American scientists Carl Corey and Getty Corey won the 1947 Physiology or Medicine Prize for their discovery of enzymatic reactions in sugar metabolism; one of the 2014 Physiology or Medicine Prize winners Norwegian scientists May-Brit Moser and Edward Moser are also husband and wife.

On December 10, 2015 local time, Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize award ceremony was held.

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Tu Youyou received the award.

[Review the winners and their achievements in the past 10 years]

  2019 year

  American scientists William Kelling, Greg Semenza, and British scientist Peter Ratcliffe received awards in recognition of their contributions to "discovering how cells perceive and adapt to oxygen supply".

At 11:30 noon on October 1, local time, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to American immunologist James Allison and Japanese immunologist Shuyou Moto for their discovery of cancer that inhibits negative immunomodulation therapy.

  2018

  American immunologist James Allison and Japanese immunologist Shusuke Moto are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering cancer treatments that inhibit negative immune regulation.

  2017

  American scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young explained how many animals, plants and humans adapt their biological rhythms to the day and night changes that follow the earth's rotation, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

  2016

  Japanese molecular cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanism of autophagy.

On October 5, 2015, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Irish medical researcher William Campbell, Japanese scholar Omura Tomo, and Chinese pharmacist Tu Youyou won the prize.

  2015

  Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine proposed artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin therapy"; meanwhile, Irish scientist William Campbell and Japanese scientist Tomoyin Omura discovered "A new treatment for an infection caused by an ascaris parasitic disease" also won the award.

  Year 2014

  The British scientist John O'Keeffe and the two Norwegian scientists Edward Mossor and May Brett Mossall won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discovering the cells that make up the brain's positioning system".

  year 2013

  American scientists James E. Rothman and Randy-W. Sheckman, and German scientist Thomas-C. Suderhoff, because of their "new discoveries in the field of intracellular transport systems, the three people discovered how cell vesicles communicate "Operation and Regulation Mechanism" won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

  2012

  British scientist Sir John Gordon and Japanese scientist Shinyain Yamanaka "discovered that mature cells can be rewritten into multifunctional cells" and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

  year 2011

  American scientist Bruce Butler and French scientist Jules Holman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their “discovery of the activation of innate immune mechanisms”; Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman also “discovered dendrites” Cells and their role in acquired immunity" jointly won the award.

  year 2010

  British scientist Robert Jeffrey Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "research in IVF".

  Year 2009

  Australian scientist Elizabeth Blackburn, American scientist Carol Grader and British scientist Jack Saustark won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discovering how telomeres and telomerase protect chromosomes."