Nominations for the Nobel Prize must be kept confidential for 50 years.
The Nobel Committee and Assembly are responsible for selecting Nobel Prize winners and this year, William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
The committee's decision was announced on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza were selected for their"discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."
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