The Nobel season is open.
Researcher and paleogenetician Svante Pääbo was rewarded on Monday by the famous Swedish institution for his work on ancient DNA.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine opens the season of famous philanthropic awards on Monday, under the dark screed of an ongoing war in Europe.
Physics will follow on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, then the two most anticipated prizes: literature on Thursday and peace on Friday, the only prize announced in Oslo.
The economy price, of more recent creation, will close the 2022 vintage next Monday.
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Last year, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their work on how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
Their "revolutionary discoveries" have "made it possible to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world", indicated the Nobel jury in Stockholm.
Male American or US-based researchers have still largely dominated the scientific Nobel prizes in recent decades, despite the efforts of juries to crown more women.
The 2021 Nobel vintage was no exception to the rule, with 12 laureates and only one laureate.
All the scientific prizes had gone to men.
