These days there is talk of the Nobel Prize everywhere in the world. The names of the winners of this year have been announced. This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has been announced to Swedish scientist Svante Paibo for his discovery on the ‘evolutionary evolution of humans’. With the announcement of the awards, a video of Pabo is going viral on social media. In this video, his companions threw him into a pond.
This video has been shared from the Twitter handle of the Nobel Prize itself. Sharing the video, it has been written that his colleagues celebrated in a traditional way. In fact, it is a tradition in the Max Planck Institute that those who take Ph.D. degrees are celebrated by throwing them in the pond. But even after Paibo won the Nobel Prize, it was celebrated in the same way.
If there is a celebration then it is like this…
In this video clip, Pabo is shown being thrown into a pond by his three colleagues. There is applause all around in celebration. The Max Planck Institute has also shared many photos of the ceremony. What better way to celebrate than to be caught by your co-workers and thrown into the pond of your institution?
Why did Svante Pabo get the Nobel?
The prize committee said their discovery provided “important insights on our immune system and on the factors that make us unique in comparison to extinct species of humans.” Nobel committee secretary Thomas Perlman said Monday at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. To announce the winner of this award. Pabo, 67, led researchers in developing a new technique to compare the genomes of extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans, very similar to modern humans.
