India, Oct. 5 -- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics, a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain-

Dr Peter Hegemann- A Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and a professor of Experimental Biophysics at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Dr Georg Nagel- A biophysicist and professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Wurzburg in Germany

Dr Karl Deisseroth- D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Peter Hegemann and Georg...