Nobel Prize
FILE - A Nobel diploma and medal are displayed, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York.
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The Nobel Prize in physics will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The prize will be awarded Tuesday. Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers. This week’s awards continue Wednesday with the chemistry prize and literature on Thursday. After Friday’s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Oct. 12. The prize money this year is about $1.2 million.
