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Inside the Nobels: Lars Brink reveals how the world’s top physics prize is awarded

01 Oct 2019 Hamish Johnston
Taken from the October 2019 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Inside the Nobels".

All of us dream of receiving a Nobel Prize for Physics, but how exactly do the winners get picked? Hamish Johnston gets the inside story from Lars Brink, a Swedish particle theorist who served on the Nobel Committee for Physics on eight separate occasions

On the first or second Tuesday in October every year, three people walk into a room at the Royal Swe

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