Thomas Perlmann, far right, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee announces the 2019 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine during a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Oct. 7, 2019. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP) (Associated Press)STOCKHOLM — The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Thomas Perlmann, the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute, said he was able to reach all three laureates by phone Monday. Prize founder Alfred Nobel — a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite — decided the physics, chemistry, medicine and literature prizes should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo. ___Read more stories on the 2019 Nobel Prizes by The Associated Press at https://www.apnews.com/NobelPrizes___Olsen reported from Copenhagen, Denmark and Cheng from London.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2019 07:30 UTC