All this week, 'those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind' are being recognised. The 2008 Nobel prize winners have been selected from 197 nominees, 16 more than last year and just short of the record of 199 set in 2005. In recent decades US entrants have tended to dominate the science prizes - medicine, physics, chemistry - though last year Europeans prevailed...
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