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Nobel Prize in physics to be awarded in Stockholm

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: ABC News
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The Nobel Prize in physics will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm…

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  • Reported by ABC News and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:24:04 UTC.

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  1. Switching on brain cells: the Nobel-winning science of optogenetics

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Switching on brain cells: the Nobel-winning science of optogenetics

The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work in the neuroscience field of optogenetics.

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