https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/04/nobel-in-medicine-ucsf-researcher-shares-prize-for-research-on-skin/

Two California scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on how the human body senses temperature through touch, which may have applications from pain management to virtual reality.

David Julius, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, a molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, will share the $1.1 million award.