Thomas Perlmann (right), the Secretary of the Nobel Committee, stands next to a screen displaying the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine David Julius (left) and Ardem Patapoutian, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 4, 2021. AFP PHOTO
STOCKHOLM: US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, the jury said.