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The Nobel Prize is awarded to ‘those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind’. Prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace have been awarded since 1901 – and economic sciences since 1969.

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The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature 9780824864958

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The Nobel Symposium in 2003 on String Theory and Cosmology was a gathering of many of the most active and distinguished

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