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PHOTOS: 2015 Nobel Prize winners

Tuesday, October 6, 2015
A view of the screen showing an image of Professor Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Four groups known together as the National Dialogue Quartet were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. The groups worked to bring about a peaceful election in Tunisia.
Svetlana Alexievich, a journalist living in Russia, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
Tomas Lindahl, the Emeritus director of Cancer Research UK at Clare Hall Laboratory in England, is shown during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Aziz Sancar, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is shown during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Paul Modrich, professor of biochemistry at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina, is shown during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The portraits of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, Takaaki Kajita (left) and Arthur B McDonald, are displayed on a screen at a press conference Tuesday.
Takaaki Kajita, Director of Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at University of Tokyo, speaks after learning he won a Nobel Prize in physics.
Tu Youyou, Chief Professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is shown in 2011. Youyou was awarded a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Irish scientist William C. Campbell, who currently teaches at Drew University in New Jersey, poses after learning he won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Satoshi Omura, a Professor Emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan, speaks after learning he won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
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A view of the screen showing an image of Professor Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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