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Scientists from Sweden, Turkey and the United States working out how cells repair damaged DNA win the Nobel prize for chemistry. Diane Hodges reports.
The Nobel Economics Prize is awarded to a US trio, Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their contributions on explaining the role of banks in the economy. SOUNDBITE
Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US have won the Nobel Physics Prize for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury announces. SOUNDBITE
Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announces that William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of the USA and Peter Ratcliffe of Britain win the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine 'for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability'. SOUNDBITE
American scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter win the Nobel Chemistry Prize for harnessing the principles of evolution to develop proteins used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals. SOUNDBITE