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# Nobels

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Record number of Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year
Awards committee today begins the secretive process of whittling 241 nominations down to one winner before October.
# China
Japan rows into dispute over China Nobel winner
The comments are not likely to be received well by an already furious China.
# Nobels
Nobel peace prize awarded to Liu Xiaobo
In a move that is bound to anger Bejing, dissident Liu Xiaobo has been awarded for his “long and non-violent struggle for human rights in China”.
# Nobels
Vargas Llosa beats all others to the Nobel punch
Esteemed author Mario who once had fisticuffs with fellow South American writing star, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Nobel prize for men who made organic chemistry "an art form"
The breakthrough could pave the way for new drugs to fight cancer.
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So long, Silicon Valley
Two British-based scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics for experiments with super-thin carbon extract which might replace silicon transistors in computers
# Nobels
Who's the Daddy? He is...
The “father of the test-tube baby” has taken the 2010 Nobel Prize for medicine, while the Ig Nobels celebrate slightly more obscure scientific, er, achievements.