Medicine Nobel goes to US-German trio for pioneering light-based control of cells

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Published 6 Oct 2026, 1:13 am·2 d ago·1 min read

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American psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that allow researchers to control nerve cells using light.

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