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December 10, 2008

Nobel Prizes Awarded Wednesday
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Laureates to receive their awards in lavish ceremonies in two
Scandinavian capitals 
 Nobel Peace Prize medal Nobel Prize laureates are to receive their
awards Wednesday in lavish ceremonies in two Scandinavian capitals. Five
awards - for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and economics -
are presented at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Peace Prize
is given out at a ceremony on the same day in Oslo, Norway. This year's
winners include two French researchers, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc
Montagnier, who in 1983 discovered the virus that causes AIDS,
physicists, Japanese Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and
American Yoichiro Nambu, who helped explain the behavior of the smallest
particles of matter, an Martii Ahtisaari American economist, Paul
Krugman, who analyzed how economies of scale affect international trade,
and a Finnish diplomat, Marrti Ahtisaari, who helped end fighting
between in Indonesia's Aceh province in 2005.Prize recipients get a
diploma, a medal, and a $1.2-million cash prize. The awards are
traditionally given out on!
  December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the
inventor and industrialist who created the prize endowments. 

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