The 2016 Nobel Prize season begins today

The 2016 Nobel Prize season will officially begin today. At 17:30 this afternoon, the first Nobel Prize to be announced was the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine or the Nobel Prize for medicine.

According to the organizers, the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine will be announced at 17:30 today, October 3 (in HN time) in Stockholm (the Swedish capital). The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is an annual award of the Caroline Institute (Karolinska Institutet) to honor physicians and biomedical scientists. This is one of five Nobel prizes founded by Alfred Nobel along with Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Peace in 1895.

17:30 today will announce the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine.

According to Wikipedia, the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2001 was German scientist Emil Adolf von Behring with "his discovery of serum substances, especially their use for healing." diphtheria". Each scientist receives a medal, a certificate and, along with financial rewards, the annual bonus amount changes over time. As in 1901, von Behring received a prize of 150,782 SEK, calculated to be equivalent to 7,731,004 SEK at the exchange rate as of December 2008. Since 2001, the annual financial prize is SEK 10,000,000. According to the current exchange rate, 1 SEK is equivalent to USD 0.12.

Last year, Nobel Physiology and Medicine was awarded to three scientists: Mr. William C. Campbell (Drew University, New Jersey, USA), Mr. Satoshi Omura (Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan) and Ms. Tu Youyou (Traditional Chinese Academy of Medicine), who have succeeded in conquering both malaria and "river blindness".

At 4:45 pm tomorrow October 4, the Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced and by 1745 on October 5, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be announced. The Nobel Peace Prize was announced on October 7, the Nobel Prize in economics was announced on October 10, and the Nobel Prize for Literature has not yet specified the time to name the winner.