The Nobel Prize is coming again, and the fields related to the new crown have become hot

Original title: the Nobel Prize is coming again, and the fields related to the new crown have become hot

Source: Nobel Committee.
Reporter an Jing
The annual Nobel Prize awards will be held in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway from October 4.
As COVID-19 continues, this year's awards will be abolished as well as last year's traditional awards ceremony and dinner. All the awards will be broadcast live via the Internet and TV. However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is still striving for a live Award for this year's Peace Prize winners in Oslo.
From October 4 to 8, the Nobel Committee will successively announce the prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Among them, the peace prize was promulgated by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
On October 11, the committee will announce the economics prize, the last prize of the Nobel Prize. This year's bonus is SEK 10 million (about RMB 7.26 million) for each award. If more than one person wins an award, the bonus will be divided equally.
In addition to announcing the final winners, the Nobel committee does not disclose the list of candidates. Before the final results are released, predicting who will win the prize has become the annual activity of media and gambling companies.
Affected by COVID-19, the area related to the new crown has become a popular bet. The World Health Organization, which plays a key role in the global fight against the epidemic, leads the peace prize odds list.

Lasker Clinical Medicine Research Award winner. Source: Lasker Foundation
In terms of Physiology or medicine awards, the two laureates of Lasker clinical medicine research award are the most popular outside at present, which is known as the "Nobel weathervane".
At the end of September, Katalin karik ó, senior vice president of biontech, and drew Weissman, Professor of vaccine research at Perelman School of medicine, University of Pennsylvania, won the Lasker Award for clinical medical research. Carrico and Weisman won the prize because they found a new treatment technology based on mRNA (messenger RNA) modification, which makes the rapid development of new crown mRNA vaccine possible.
Carrico and Weisman published the research related to mRNA technology as early as 2005, but it did not attract attention. At present, Pfizer / biontech and Modena have launched a new mRNA vaccine, and more than 10 mRNA vaccines have entered clinical trials all over the world.
Before the Lasker Award, carrico and Weisman also won the scientific breakthrough award known as the "Academy of Sciences". The scientific breakthroughs Award Committee said that the research of Wiseman and CIC not only played a key role in the global fight against the new crown, but also provided new possibilities for future vaccine research and treatment of various diseases such as AIDS and cancer.
In addition to Wiseman and Nobel, other candidates for the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine come from the field of immune system research, cell communication and experimental embryology. They also include the discoverer of breast cancer gene BRCA1 and Professor Claire Kim of University of Washington (King).
In the Nobel Prize in physics, scientists in the fields of quantum informatics, condensed matter physics and metamaterials are regarded as hot winners.
Science news network inside science predicts that in quantum informatics, Alain aspect and clauser from the Higher Institute of optics in Paris,J.F. Clauser & Assoc. Founder John clauser and Anton zeilinger of the University of Vienna in Austria may jointly win the physics award. The experiments of the three scientists proved that quantum entanglement exists objectively.
In the Chemistry Award, most of the guesses focused on DNA sequencing, free radical chemistry, computational chemistry and other fields related to new crown detection.
Two chemists at Cambridge University, Shankar balasubramanian and David klenerman, invented a new generation of DNA sequencing technology, making it possible for fast and low-cost large-scale genome sequencing. The two scientists previously won the 2020 Millennium science and technology award. Three of the past nine winners of the Millennium science and technology award have won the Nobel Prize.
In addition, Guangnan zeben, an honorary professor at Kyoto University and who discovered and developed metal catalyzed active radical polymerization, was also selected by popular people.
For the Nobel Prize in literature and the peace prize, the British gambling company nicer odds released the odds list.

Literature award. Source: nicer odds
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami was on the list again, and Kenyan born writer Ngugi wa thiongo, Canadian poetess Anne Carson and Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya also ranked among the top.
Some literary critics believe that considering that previous Nobel prizes for literature have been awarded to European and North American candidates, this year's literary prize may choose authors with cross-cultural backgrounds.
In the peace prize, the top three odds in the European Union are the World Health Organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, the leader of the Russian opposition and Alexei navalny, who was poisoned. Sweden's "green girl" tunberry and Belarus's opposition leader sviatlana tsikhanouskaya also ranked in the top 10.

Peace prize. Source: nicer odds
Tihanovskaya has been listed as a wanted criminal in Russia, and navalny is serving his sentence in Russia. Reuters believes that if tihanovskaya or navalni win the peace prize, it will be a reappearance of the cold war.
At that time, among the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize and Literature Prize were Sakharov, the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" who asked for Soviet reform, and Solzhenitsyn, a writer deprived of Soviet nationality.
The peace prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the members of the committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. The report points out that in recent years, candidates nominated by Norwegian parliamentarians have a greater chance of winning the peace prize.
A recent survey of Norwegian parliamentarians shows that tomberg, navalny, tihanovskaya and who are all popular candidates.
Last year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme in recognition of its contribution to improving peace conditions in conflict affected areas.
From 1901 to 2020, 930 people and 25 organizations won the Nobel Prize, some of which won many awards. The youngest winner was Yusuf Zai, a Pakistani girl who won the 2014 peace prize at the age of 17; The oldest person is gudinaf, the winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2019, who was 97 years old at that time.