Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Scientists behind Hepatitis C Discovery

This year's winners will be invited to celebrate alongside the 2021 laureates, assuming the pandemic has eased by then.

Medicine is the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year.

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The prizes for achievements in science, peace, and literature have been awarded since 1901 and were created in the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel. ($1 = 8.9053 Swedish crowns)

(Writers: Simon Johnson, Douglas Busvine, Niklas Pollard, Johannes Hellstrom, Supantha Mukherjee, Anna Ringstrom | Editors: Hugh Lawson, Giles Elgood)

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