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Nobel 2009 winners
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The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895. It is awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace since 1901.-images and achievements of the Nobel Prize winners 2009.
University of California, Berkeley professor Oliver Williamson speaks during a news conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California. American Oliver Williamson shared the Nobel Prize in economics with Elinor Ostrom for their analysis of economic governance. Elinor Ostrom also celebrated winning the Nobel Prize in economics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ostrom, a U.S. academic who proved that communities can trump state control and corporations became the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics sharing it with an expert on conflict resolution.–Reuter Photo