Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles Rice share 10m Swedish kronor prize
Two Americans and a British scientist have been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their joint discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Harvey J Alter at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland, Charles M Rice at Rockefeller University in New York and Michael Houghton, a British virologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, share the 10m Swedish kronor prize (£870,000), announced by the Nobel assembly from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
