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US-based Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov are named by the Swedish Academy of Sciences as the winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize. IMAGES
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offers his "warmest congratulations" to doctor Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who just won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in developing the technology that led to mNRA vaccines against Covid 19. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March 2020 and the first mRNA vaccines were approved for use against the illness in December that year. Billions of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna doses have been injected around the world since then. SOUNDBITE
Three Nobel Prize winners, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Jules Hoffmann and Jean Marie Lehn are vaccinated against Covid at Strasbourg University Hospital, on the first day vaccinations of over-75s and vulnerable people. IMAGES
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to American songwriter Bob Dylan during ceremony in Stockholm, Thursday. As explained by Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius, Dylan was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
British-born Oliver Hart says he hopes his Nobel win in economics is influential in the long-run as he addresses the media following the prize announcement. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The country that started the Arab Spring has been recognized for its mostly peaceful transition to a democracy, with the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Nathan Frandino reports.