2 Americans, 1 Swede share Crafoord science prize

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two Americans and a Swede have won this year’s Crafoord Prize, a 4 million kronor ($600,000) scientific award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to honor achievements not always covered by its more famous Nobel Prizes.

Peter Gregersen of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research near New York, Robert Winchester of Columbia University and Lars Klareskog of Stockholm’s Karolinska institute were cited for discoveries related to rheumatoid arthritis.

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