(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))
BRUSSELS, Oct 4 (KUNA) -- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to two US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, in a press release Monday, said, "Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and underpins our interaction with the world around us."
"In our daily lives we take these sensations for granted, but how are nerve impulses initiated so that temperature and pressure can be perceived? This question has been solved by this year's Nobel Prize laureates," it said.
David Julius was born in 1955 in New York, USA. He was recruited to the University of California, San Francisco in 1989 where he is now Professor.
Ardem Patapoutian was born in 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon. In his youth, he moved from Beirut to Los Angeles, USA and received a Ph.D. in 1996 from California Institute of Technology.
Since 2000, he is a scientist at Scripps Research, California where he is now Professor.
The two scientist will share the Nobel Prize amount for 2021 of 10 million Swedish kronor (USD 1.1 million) (end)
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