Explained: In Nobel season, recalling the world’s most prestigious honour | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: In Nobel season, recalling the world’s most prestigious honour | Explained News, The Indian Express

Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 7, 2019 5:18:37 pm

Explained: In Nobel season, recalling the world’s most prestigious honour

According to the official Nobel Prize website, between 1901 and 2018, the Prizes have been awarded 590 times, the recipients during this period being 908 Laureates and 27 organisations.

The Nobel Foundation stepped in after the Swedish Academy was hit by allegations of sexual abuse, financial wrongdoing, corruption, and a cover-up.

On Monday, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”