2015 Nobel Prizes

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Here is the menu for the Nobel Banquet:

Turbot and scallop with sea plants, brown butter and bleak roe

Ember bed roasted veal wrapped in mushrooms with celeriac and apple,
roasted celeriac jus and potato pithiviers

Coffee and almond flavoured cherry blossom
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"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton 'for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.'"
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"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011."
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"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 is awarded to the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich 'for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.'"

Alexievich becomes the first journalist to win this award.
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"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar 'for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.'"
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"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald 'for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.'"
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They are handing out the 2015 Nobel Prizes this week. First up is Physiology Or Medicine, "divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura 'for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites' and the other half to Youyou Tu 'for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.'"

http://www.nobelprize.org/
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