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Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo's ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

The Conversation

Who is Svante Pääbo? Swedish scientist wins Nobel Prize

The Swedish scientist isn’t the first in his family to win a Nobel Prize

Evening Standard

SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 goes to Yunqing Tang

The prize committee says the awardee’s works ‘display a remarkable combination of sophisticated techniques’

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Nobel Prize in Literature: Everything you need to know as 2022 Nobel Laureate to be announced

2022 prize is awarded this week

The Independent UK

Nobel Prizes 2022: Categories, dates, and winners of this year’s prizes

Svante Pääbo, a Swedish scientist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Evening Standard

IIT Madras launches Nobel Laureates lecture series

Physics laureate Didier Queloz to deliver inaugural address

The Hindu

Explained | 2022 Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo’s research on human evolution

Dr. Svante Pääbo had published the first Neanderthal genome sequence in 2010.

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Portugal abuse cases mount amid questions over Nobel bishop

Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal

The Independent UK

Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization – winners are creative thinkers who synthesize innovations from varied fields and even hobbies

Experts often recommend that people specialize in one field of work or research to maximize their chances of success. Yet our recently published research indicates that successful innovators take a broader path.

The Conversation

Swedish gene specialist gets Nobel season started with medicine prize

Swedish genetic historian Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered Denisova, a previously unknown precursor of Homo sapiens, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of this year's awards from the Swedish Academy.

Radio France Internationale

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Swedish scientist for discovering genome of extinct human ancestors

Dr Svante Pääbo is also behind discovery of a previously unknown extinct hominin species

The Independent UK

Svante Paabo Wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Scientist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries "concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution", the award-giving body said on Monday. The prize, arguably among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for Neanderthal research

Svante Pääbo receives 2022 award in physiology or medicine for genome discoveries including Neanderthals

The Guardian - UK

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize in medicine

Svante Paabo wins the prestigious prize for his discoveries on human evolution.

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Reuters

Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history.

Reuters

Factbox-How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 7 in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works:

The Hindu

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.

The Independent UK

Nobel panel to announce winner of medicine prize

The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

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The Independent UK

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season

The Hindu

Does scrapping of awards signal misplaced priorities?

The government order shuts down all awards instituted through private endowments for which the government was not spending anything

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Nobel Prize Season Arrives amid War, Nuclear Fears, Hunger

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It's anyone's guess…

Reuters

Nobel Peace Prize could condemn Ukraine war or highlight climate change

This year's Nobel Peace Prize could condemn the war in Ukraine by recognising opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the volunteers who have helped civilians, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who ranks high on bookmakers' lists.

The Independent UK

Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster

Al Jazeera

Vatican affirms sanctioning Nobel-winning bishop over sex scandal

Holy See says it received allegations over Carlos Ximenes Belo’s behaviour in East Timor 2019, and then sanctioned him.

The Independent UK

Bishop who won Nobel for work in Timor accused of sex abuse

A Dutch magazine has reported that a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop has been accused of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s

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