Scientist sues Nobel assembly for awarding medicine prize to wrong people

The body that awards the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine is being sued for defamation by a researcher who alleges that the two scientists jointly awarded this year’s prize have been wrongly credited with work he did a decade before.

Rongxiang Xu, a Chinese scientist working in California, filed the lawsuit at the Superior Court of California, Orange County.

This year’s prize has gone to John Gurdon, of the Gurdon Institute …