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Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Nobel Peace Prize goes to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

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FILE- In this April 17, 2015, file photo a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. This year’s round of Nobel Prizes begins Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, with the award for medicine or physiology, honoring research into the microscopic mechanisms of life and ways to fend off the invaders who cut it short. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

The Latest: US scientist, 96, is oldest to win Nobel Prize

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FILE- In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year's announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences. The march of Nobel announcements begins Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, with the physiology/medicine prize. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Nobel Prizes still struggle with wide gender disparity

By MARK LEWIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles. The panel that awards the Nobel Prize in literature says this year's winner will be announced Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. In 2015 and 2016, the award went to writers outside the conventional conception of “literature” as novels and poetry. Svetlana Alexievich’s books are artistic sociopolitical reportage, and Bob Dylan’s lyrics arguably have more power as song than on the page. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Nobel literature prize: Honoring the elusive ‘ideal’

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobel prize has greater personal impact than merely receiving the monetary award, as it marks the recipient in terms of esteem and global recognition. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, FILE)

Esteem, money and mystery: 5 things to know about the Nobels

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles. The Swedish Academy says 2016 Nobel literature winner Bob Dylan will meet with members of the academy this weekend and they will hand over his Nobel diploma and medal. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Dylan to meet Nobel academy to receive literature diploma

By MATTI HUUHTANEN - Associated Press

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos makes the victory sign after voting in a referendum to decide whether or not to support the peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) ** FILE **

Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian president, wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Mark Lewis and Karl Ritter - Associated Press

The Royal Academy of Sciences members, from left, Professor Nils Martensson, Professor Goran K Hansson and Professor Thomas Hans Hansson reveal the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have won the Nobel physics prize. Nobel jury praises physics winners for 'discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter'. (Anders Wiklund /TT via AP)

Nobel physics prize awarded to 3 for topology work

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. There is no bigger international honor than the Nobel Prize, created by 19th-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, and the 2016 laureates will be named over the coming days to join the pantheon of greats who were honored in years gone by. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, FILE)

How do you get one? 5 things to know about the Nobel Prizes

By KARL RITTER - Associated Press

In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Malala Yousafzai speaks about her fight for girls' education on the International Day of the Girl at the World Bank in Washington. Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai has jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for her "heroic struggle" for girls' rights to education, it is announced Friday Oct. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize

By Marl Lewis and Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Novelists “must take a humanistic stance, and write accordingly. Only then can literature not just originate in events but transcend them, not just show concern for politics but be greater than politics,” said Mo Yan, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature. (Associated Press)

Chinese Nobel winner: Politics a great challenge

By Louise Nordstrom - Associated Press

Chinese Nobel winner: Politics a great challenge

By LOUISE NORDSTROM - Associated Press

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, objects to the European Union receiving the honor. (Associated Press)

Peace prize for EU sparks unrest

By Louise Nordstrom - Associated Press

Per Krusell (from left), Staffan Normark, Peter Gardenfors and Tore Ellingsen of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announce the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm on Oct. 15, 2012. Americans Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University and Lloyd S. Shapley of University of California at Los Angeles were cited for "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Henrik Montgomery)

2 Americans win Nobel economics prize

By Karl Ritter and Louise Nordstrom - Associated Press

Nobel Prize season kicks off with medicine award

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The art and science of guessing a Nobel Prize

By KARL RITTER - Associated Press

**FILE** President Obama, a 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, poses Dec. 10, 2009, with his medal and diploma at the prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo. (Associated Press)

Nobel Peace Prize jury under investigation

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Nobel winners pay tribute to deceased laureate

By LOUISE NORDSTROM - Associated Press

Per Krusell (left) and Staffan Normark of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announce during a press conference in Stockholm on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, that Americans Thomas Sargent (top right) and Christopher Sims (top left) have won the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. (AP Photo/Fredrik Sandberg/ SCANPIX)

2 Americans win Nobel Prize in economics

By Geoff Mulvihill and Paul Wiseman - Associated Press