Nobel Prize in Medicine

Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks


MEDICINE PRIZE IN NUMBERS

107 Nobel Prizes in Medicine awarded from 1901 to 2016

32 Age of youngest laureate, Frederick G. Banting, awarded in 1923 for discovery of insulin

12 Women awarded Medicine Prize to date

87 Age of oldest laureate, Peyton Rous, awarded in 1966 for discovery of tumour-inducing viruses


Source: Nobelprize.org 
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