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The
first 2022 Nobel Prize was awarded yesterday, kicking
off the annual weeklong season honoring the world’s best in a variety of
categories, from the economy to human rights. Svante Paabo received the Nobel Prize
in medicine on Monday for discoveries he made regarding Neanderthal DNA.
The Swedish scientist, pictured above, helped develop new techniques to
compare modern humans to related ancient species and gain new insights into
how our immune systems operate. Anna Wedell, the chair of the Nobel
Committee, called his work “a sensational discovery,”
while Harvard Medical School geneticist David Reich added to the Associated Press, “It’s totally reconfigured
our understanding of human variation and human history.”
The medicine prize is the first of six that will be announced over the next
week. Today is the physics prize, Wednesday chemistry, and Thursday
literature. The Nobel Peace Prize will then be awarded on Friday, and the
economics award finishes things out on Monday, October 10. Each one is worth
10 million Swedish kronor, or around $900,000, and they will
be officially handed out on December 10 to honor the date that Swedish
inventor Alfred Nobel — the award’s namesake — died in 1896.
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