From peppers to peppermints: insights into thermosensation and pain https://www.youtube.com/embed/a5b9-_UQEzI David Julius delivered his Nobel Prize lecture on Tuesday 7 December 2021. He was introduced by Professor Abdel El Manira.

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the prize in economic sciences are awarded to the Nobel Prize laureates. This year, the award ceremony was…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/01T0yOyD808 Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, on 4 October 2021. Interview about the awarded work https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ca3VbiVaIjk “This discovery has profoundly changed our view of how we sense the world around us” Immediately following…

Telephone interview, October 2021 https://www.youtube.com/embed/JN785BltqPM “Let me just finish pouring some water into my coffee maker, because that’s going to be essential!” Telephone interview with David Julius following the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 4 October 2021. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Prize Outreach.…

Interview, February 2022 Ardem Patapoutian in the lab. Photographer: Walter Wilson and The Collective, 2021 “I found my tribe among scientists” On 28 February 2022 nobelprize.org spoke to Ardem Patapoutian about his journey to the United States, what it takes to become a successful scientist and his love of playing the trumpet (even though his…

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Scientific background Discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of thermal and mechanical transducers. The question of how we sense the physical world through somatic sensation has fascinated humankind for millennia. During the first half of…