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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience
5 October 2026 at 09:55
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel were awarded the prize for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
Thomas Perlmann, the secretary general of the Nobel Committee, speaking at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday.
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