The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
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Nobel Prize winners will receive one million Swedish kronor more in prize money this year, bringing the total to 11 million kroner ($985,000), the Nobel Foundation has said.
In winning the prize, the Swedish Academy highlighted the Tanzanian novelist’s ”uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effect of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
For me, WS is not the unfathomable mystery that many perceive from a distance and he is not the mythological pantheon that exists in the realm of the gods in the imagination of many. He is a mentor, a role model and a thought-leader with whom I have had the rare privilege of sharing a great moment of significant historic importance in my life.
The winners were recognized on Tuesday for their work on Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a collaborative project with over 1,000 researchers from more than 20 countries.