Two Americans and a British scientist have been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their joint discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Harvey J Alter at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland, Charles M Rice at Rockefeller University in New York, and Michael Houghton, a British virologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, share the 10m Swedish kronor prize (£870,000), announced by the Nobel assembly from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The physics prize will be announced on Tuesday and the prize for chemistry on Wednesday, both from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
(The Guardian)
