Answer: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel.
Status: Confirmed
Entry: awards/nobel-medicine
Revision: 1
Digest: sha256:c42a2a24dd6ce6d6 (changes whenever the content changes)

Timeline:
  Created: 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z
  Last changed: 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z
  Last verified: 2026-11-12T11:33:58Z
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Data:
  Field | Value | Source | As of
  Award year | 2026 | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Laureate: Karl Deisseroth | Karl Deisseroth | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Laureate: Peter Hegemann | Peter Hegemann | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Laureate: Georg Nagel | Georg Nagel | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Motivation | for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics | [1] | 2026-11-12

Sources:
  [1] Nobel Prize Outreach (official Nobel Prize API). "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine". https://api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes?sort=desc&limit=1&nobelPrizeCategory=med
      Role: primary. Accessed: 2026-11-12T11:33:58Z
      Quote: ""awardYear":"2026"" (Supports: Award year)
      Quote: ""en":"Karl Deisseroth"" (Supports: Laureate: Karl Deisseroth)
      Quote: ""en":"Peter Hegemann"" (Supports: Laureate: Peter Hegemann)
      Quote: ""en":"Georg Nagel"" (Supports: Laureate: Georg Nagel)
      Quote: ""en":"for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics"" (Supports: Motivation)
      Published: 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z
      Snapshot SHA-256: 046a59e85d845618003d41e91e691d486785ad0d056000c9760c2064b46a209b (captured 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z)

Verification:
  Method: Read by code directly from the structured data published at [1]; no language model was involved. Every value appears verbatim in a quoted passage of [1]. On this check the text of [1] was unchanged since 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z, so the values verified then were kept.
  Cross-check: not-available at 2026-11-12T11:33:58Z. No independent second source is configured for this entry
  Last successful check: 2026-11-12T11:33:58Z
  Last attempt: 2026-11-12T11:33:58Z

Notes and limitations:
  The answer is the most recent award listed by the official Nobel Prize API.

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