Premio Nobel de Medicina

El Premio Nobel de Medicina se anuncia cada año a inicios del mes de octubre y se entrega el 10 de diciembre en Estocolmo, junto con los galardones de todas las otras áreas.

Alfred Nobel had an active interest in medical research. Through Karolinska Institutet, he came into contact with Swedish physiologist Jöns Johansson around 1890. Johansson worked in Nobel’s laboratory in Sevran, France during a brief period the same year. Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Nobel mentioned in his will.¹