Yesterday the 111th Nobel Prize week was opened in Stockholm (Sweden). Reportedly by UNIAN, this year’s Nobel cash prize is eight million Swedish kronas, which is an equivalent to approximately 1.2 million dollars.
The week started with announcing the names of Nobel Prize winners in medicine: the prestigious award went to Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka and British biologist John Gurdon for their discoveries connected with stem cells and animal cloning.
Physics prize will be announced today, followed by chemistry on October 10. According to mass media, the Swedish Academy, whose Nobel Committee accepts the decision on awarding the prize in the branch of literature, has not told yet when the literature prize will be announced, but traditionally it will be held on one of October Thursdays.
According to UNIAN, on Friday, October 12, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo (where this prize is awarded). Bookmakers say that it is most likely that this year’s winner of the Nobel world prize will be human rights and women’s rights champion Sima Samar (Afghanistan).
They say top second candidate is American soldier Bradley Manning who stole and passed 250,000 classified documents of the US diplomatic department to the WikiLeaks portal, Polskie Radio reported. Yulia Tymoshenko is on the third place.
