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Nobel season opens today with Medicine Prize

cde.news desk 7 October 2019, 06:31 · 1 min read

epa02488409 The front of the Nobel medal that is to be awarded to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2010, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiabo, Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2010. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, a dissident serving an 11-year jail term in jail in north-east China for political offences was denied the permission to attend the ceremony. EPA/BERIT ROALD

The announcement of the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday opens an unusual 2019 Nobel season in which two literature laureates will be crowned after a scandal postponed last year’s award, amid speculation Greta Thunberg could nab the prestigious Peace Prize.

The winner of the Medicine Prize will be revealed on Monday morning in Stockholm. It will be followed by the prizes for physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, and economics on Monday, October 14.

In between, the Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo on Friday, October 11, with Swedish teen climate activist Greta seen as the favourite on betting sites such as Ladbrokes.

Predictions about possible winners are notoriously difficult as the prize-awarding institutions keep the names of the nominees’ secret for 50 years.

For the Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has only disclosed that it received 301 nominations this year.

Via Nobel Prize/France 24

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