Explaining the Nobel Prizes in Science
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"Well, obviously, I'm delighted," Higgs said at the event, where he revealed he had not known of the award until a neighbor gave him the news.
That mystery solved, all that is left is understanding what the scientists actually did to win this year's prizes, which award 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million) per category, which is split when there are multiple winners.
As always, the winners of Monday's medicine prize, Tuesday's physics prize, and Wednesday's chemistry prize will receive their official medals from Sweden's King Carl Gustaf XVI in a December 10 ceremony in Stockholm. (Related: Why we care about the Nobels.)
The Nobel Prizes partly owe their prominence to modern science becoming so complicated that you need experts to
