What an honour.
A Donegal-born scientist is one of three people to win the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
William C Campbell and his colleague Satoshi Omura were jointly awarded half the prize for their research into an unusual therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
Here’s the moment the were awarded the prize.
The 2015 #NobelPrize awarded achievements in Physiology or Medicine http://t.co/5O4d6gIGoS
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2015
William Cambell was born in Ramelton in 1930 and studied in Trinity before moving to America in the 1950s.
According to RTÉ, he was the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research from 1957-1990 and he’s currently a Research Fellow Emeritus at Drew University in New Jersey.
There won’t be a cow milked in Donegal tonight.
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