The Nobel committees announced the year’s first winners on Monday, awarding the prize for physiology or medicine to a trio of scientists who the committees said have “laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.”
The committee will continue revealing the winner or winners of one category every weekday until the final laureate is announced. The physics award will be given on Tuesday; chemistry on Wednesday; literature on Thursday; peace on Friday; and economic sciences next Monday, Oct. 12.
The peace prize, often the most closely watched of the awards, will be given to one of 287 candidates who were nominated this year, the Nobel committee said.
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“The decision is final and applies for all time,” the committee wrote.
Here’s what to know about the 2026 winners who have been announced.
Physiology or medicine
“Optogenetics provides opportunities for mapping the brain in a way that we could once only dream of,” said Per Svenningsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine.
The laureates' use of optogenetics will allow researchers to “discover exactly which of the nerve cells in a complicated bundle control different brain functions,” such as those related to pain, social behavior, thirst and hunger, and reward and attention, the committee wrote.
Deisseroth, who has similarly said he was “quite surprised” to receive the honor, told Stanford Medicine that he “couldn’t be happier,” noting that “the trio that the committee picked spans the progression from the early algal explorations all the way to advanced neuroscience experiments.”
“So this prize really captures the full journey of discovery,” he said.
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