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To which world region will this year's Nobel Prize in Physics go?
Two Japanese and one Japanese-born American scientist win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
This question will be double settled for both Northern America and Eastern Asia.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3qm0Y8td2T63_bc7_bsbSoqPWNQD93LJOI80
Background:
In 1901 the very first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays. In more recent years, the Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded for both pioneering discoveries and groundbreaking inventions.
Nominations for 2008
197 names were submitted for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, 33 of which are organizations. The Nobel Committees in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize Committee for Economics each usually receives 250-300 names every year. The names of the nominees cannot be revealed until 50 years later.
Official Clarification: In the case where the prize is awarded to more than one person, this question will be settled.
In the case of a discrepancy between the country of origin and country of wor of the winner I would suggest that the question should be settled for the region in which the work was carried out.
Announcements of the 2008 Nobel Prizes
Physics - Tuesday, October 7, 11:45 a.m. CET at the earliest
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/
http://www.nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/nomination_facts.html
Regions, according to hubdub good question guidelines (http://www.hubdub.com/public/goodquestion), as defined here: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/worldregions.htm
and visualized here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:United_Nations_geographical_subregions.png
Official Clarification: In the case where the prize is awarded to more than one person, this question will be double settled.
In the case of a discrepancy between the country of origin and country of wor of the winner I would suggest that the question should be settled for the region in which the work was carried out.
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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| Nothern or Western Europe |
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Comments: 4
Suspend date: Tue 7th Oct 2008 2:45am PST
Settlement date: Tue 7th Oct 2008 3:32am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Tue 7th Oct 2008 2:45am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: Africa: 10%, Eastern Asia: 10%, South-Central or South Eastern Asia: 10%, Western Asia: 10%, Eastern Europe: 10%, Nothern or Western Europe: 10%, Southern Europe: 10%, Latin America: 10%, Nothern America: 10%, Oceania: 10%
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: 2 Japanese, 1 American share Nobel physics prize
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3qm0Y8td2T63_bc7_bsbSoqPWNQD93LJOI80
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: Two Japanese and one Japanese-born American scientist win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
This question will be double settled for both Northern America and Eastern Asia.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3qm0Y8td2T63_bc7_bsbSoqPWNQD93LJOI80
tisha: Two Japanese and one Japanese-born American scientist win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
This question will be double settled for both Northern America and Eastern Asia.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3qm0Y8td2T63_bc7_bsbSoqPWNQD93LJOI80
tisha: Two Japanese and one Japanese-born American scientist win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
This question will be double settled for both Northern America and Eastern Asia.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3qm0Y8td2T63_bc7_bsbSoqPWNQD93LJOI80
Suspend date: Tue 7th Oct 2008 2:45am PST
Settlement date: Tue 7th Oct 2008 3:32am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Tue 7th Oct 2008 2:45am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled details 
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predicted Nothern or Western Europe (H$20 at 23%)
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predicted Nothern or Western Europe (H$20 at 23%)
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but, though it might happen that the prize is awarded to more than one person, it is not very likely that these persons are from different regions.
in case it would, maybe the question would simply be voided or dubble settled - to be decided by the category editor.
In the case of a discrepancy between the country of origin and country of wor of the winner I would suggest that the question should be settled for the region in which the work was carried out.
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