Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is one of many Nobel Prizes which were created by Alfred Nobel. This award is given by the Karolinska Institutet, which is a major medical center in Sweden. The Prize is given out every year to a person or persons who have done excellent work in the area of medicine.
Some winners include: Karl Landsteiner, for discovery of human blood types, in 1930; Baruch S. Blumberg, for the discovery of hepatitis B virus in 1976; and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, for describing the disease kuru caused by cannibalism in 1976.
