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Two United States-based scientists, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work.
About
- Julius is a professor at the University of California in San Francisco.
- Ardem Patapoutian is a scientist at Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, US.
- David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian got Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on how temperature and mechanical stimuli are converted to electrical impulses in the human nervous system.
About Nobel Prize
- Nobel Prize was established by Alfred Nobel in the year 1895.
- The first Nobel Prizes ceremony was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
- In 1968, a memorial prize in economic sciences was added.
- The Nobel Prize winner gets a medal and a prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor.
