NOBEL WEEK UNDER WAY

11:05 05/10/2009
Panorama.am

The winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes will be announced in the next two
weeks, starting with the medicine prize on Monday.

The prize-awarding institutions are scientific and literary bodies in
Sweden, and a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament to choose
the peace laureate.

The medicine prize will be announced on Monday, followed by physics
Tuesday, chemistry Wednesday, literature on Thursday and peace on
Friday. The economics award will be announced Oct. 12. All awards are
always presented Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who founded the
prizes. Occasionally no winner is announced.