NOBEL WEEK UNDER WAY
The winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes will be announced in the next two weeks, starting with the medicine prize on Monday.
The prize-awarding institutions are scientific and literary bodies in Sweden, and a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament to choose the peace laureate.
The medicine prize will be announced on Monday, followed by physics Tuesday, chemistry Wednesday, literature on Thursday and peace on Friday. The economics award will be announced Oct. 12. All awards are always presented Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who founded the prizes. Occasionally no winner is announced.