2014 Nobel Prize Winners
![Physicist Nobel co-winner Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, smiles as he answers a question in Grenoble, France, Oct. 7, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/891714e2-1405-4729-aa53-ffcf9c2a4c47_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Physicist Nobel co-winner Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, smiles as he answers a question in Grenoble, France, Oct. 7, 2014.
![Meijo University physics professor and Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki speaks during a news conference at Meijo University in Nagoya, central Japan, Oct. 7, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f8ed7e5d-21ad-4a45-8e62-88a24bda8e04_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Meijo University physics professor and Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki speaks during a news conference at Meijo University in Nagoya, central Japan, Oct. 7, 2014.
![Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, attends a news conference at the French publishing house Gallimard in Paris, France, Oct. 9, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4f5c891c-27e1-44a7-9837-47f9caec6c92_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, attends a news conference at the French publishing house Gallimard in Paris, France, Oct. 9, 2014.
![Chemistry Nobelist Stefan Hell poses with a nanoscale microscope at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, Oct. 8, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2f51e48e-18c7-40d4-94c0-0e99439d1469_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Chemistry Nobelist Stefan Hell poses with a nanoscale microscope at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, Oct. 8, 2014.