Nobel prize laureate Satoshi Omura (first 3 pictures) of Japan, 80, attends a news conference at Kitasato University in Tokyo on Monday, October 5, 2015. (Photos by Shingo Ito/AFLO)
Japanese microbiologist Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with two other scientists “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites”.
Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita (below 2 pictures) speaks during a news conference after hearing that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics on October 6th, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photos by AFLO)
Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Canadian Arthur McDonald were awarded the Prize for discovering neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass.
