Nobel Prize Winner

Nobel Prize Winner

One prize will be announced each day from Monday to Oct. 7 and again on Oct. 10, between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m

will be streamed live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize.

The award for literature will be announced on Thursday.

The award for peace work will be announced on Oct. 7.

The award for economic science will be announced on Oct. 10.

On Monday, Svante Paabo was awarded the year’s first prize, for physiology or medicine.

Award announced by Thomas Perlmann, the committee’s secretary, in Stockholm on Monday.

Dr. Paabo, a Swedish geneticist, won for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Who is Svante Paabo

Paabo's father, Sune Bergstrom, is also a Nobel prize winner in medicine in 1982

Who is Svante Paabo

67 year Old Paabo Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he has also studied Egyptology and Medicine at Uppsala University.

Who is Svante Paabo

He is also known for his discovery of an unknown hominin, Denisova, discovered by studying DNA from a tiny finger bone found in a cave in Siberia.

Who is Svante Paabo