The Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

Published on : 04/10/2021 – 11:37Modified : 04/10/2021 – 11:49

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded, Monday, October 4, to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries on “temperature and touch receptors”.

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,” said the Nobel jury in Stockholm.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the first prize awarded each year by the Swedish Academy.