11K views · 675 reactions | “Scientists often toss around this phrase 'textbook discovery'. But I'd say this is really a textbook discovery.” Randall Johnson, member of the Nobel Assembly, on the discovery awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 2019 Medicine Prize has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” | Nobel Prize | Facebook