Nobel Prize season kicks off with medicine award

Stockholm : Sweden | Oct 07, 2012 at 11:17 PM PDT

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Some of the world's top scholars will be thrust into the global spotlight this week as award committees in Stockholm and Oslo announce the 2012 Nobel Prizes, starting with the medicine award Monday. The prestigious prizes, created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel , were first awarded in 1901... FULL ARTICLE AT Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Swedish media have suggested Nobel prize in the medicine could go to Japan's Shinya Yamanaka

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