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Watch the moment a California scientist tells his family he won the Nobel Prize for medicine
Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize. Deisseroth, 54, shared this year’s medicine prize with two researchers in Germany for their work in optogenetics, a field that combines light with genes to switch on and off neuro
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NPR is the only outlet here clearly matching the chemistry prize, naming Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai and the work on non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. By contrast, the Associated Press and ABC News extracts are about a different Nobel Prize, focusing on Karl Deisseroth and optogenetics, so their coverage diverges sharply from NPR’s framing.
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