Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 7 October 2024.

Interview about the awarded work

“It’s a completely new physiological mechanism”

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Olle Kämpe, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, was interviewed by freelance journalist Lotta Fredholm regarding the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Nobel Prizes 2024

Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.

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