Carl Disroth, a professor at Stanford University in the United States, informs his family that he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Carl Disroth, a professor at Stanford University in the United States, informs his family that he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Mr. Dysroth, along with his German colleagues Peter Hagmann and Georg Nagel, won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their joint research in the field of optogenetics.

According to the Nobel Committee for Medicine, these three researchers were "the founders of a new era in neuroscience."