This year's Nobel Prize award ceremony was held online due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and it was revealed that the winners will receive medals all over the world.
The Nobel Prize award ceremony is held every year in Oslo, the capital of Norway, and the Chemistry Award and the Literary Award are held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Was held.
Awards other than the Peace Award were awarded in Germany and the United States, where the winners live, from the 6th to the 9th of this month, and the situation was distributed from Stockholm on the 10th.
Among them, Emmanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Infectious Biology in Germany, who was born in France and won the Chemistry Award, is at the residence of the Swedish ambassador in Berlin.
Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley received a medal in her yard and smiled.
The two have developed a new method of "genome editing" that can freely rewrite the genetic information of living organisms, and are also used in research on the new coronavirus.
At a press conference held on the 9th, Director Charpentier said, "The pandemic of the new coronavirus highlights the need for basic science in the field of infectious diseases." He complained that he needed to work hard.