The announcement schedule for the 2013 Nobel Prizes has been announced and bookmakers are taking bets for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. While there are no odds for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, many believe individuals involved with the Higgs boson will win but questions remain about who will receive the award.
The 2013 Nobel Prizes will be announced starting next week, with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine being announced on Oct. 7, 2013. The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Oct. 8 and the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 11. The Nobel Prize in Literature has no scheduled announcement date but the Guardian expects the prize to be awarded sometime next week as the prize is typically announced a week before the Man Booker Prize, which is scheduled for Oct. 15.
Bookmaker Paddy Power has set up lines for the Literature prize and the Peace prize while Ladbrokes has set up a line for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. For the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, Paddy Power and Ladbrokes have Japanese author Haruki Murakami favored at 3/1 odds. Paddy Power has Irish novelist William Trevor and Algerian author Assia Djebar, pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, at 10/1 odds while Ladbrokes has Joyce Carol Oates pegged at 6/1 odds. "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling and "50 Shades of Grey" author E.L. James have odds of 500/1 on Paddy Power.
For the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai is favored at 2/1 odds, followed by Denis Mukwege (6/4) and Bradley Manning (16/1). Yousafzai, 16, survived an assassination attempt following her public stance on educating girls in Pakistan and Mukwege is a Congolese gynecologist whose work with females who have been gang-raped has been internationally recognized. Mukwege returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo in January after surviving an assassination attempt.
While no betting lines have been placed for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, many believe the award will go to researchers involved with the Higgs boson. Peter Higgs and Francois Englert are believed to be the likely candidates for the physics prize but, as NBC News notes, there are thousands of people that have worked on the Higgs boson. While Higgs and Englert theorized the boson's existence, NBC News says theoretical physicists Tom Kibble, Gerald Guralnik and C. R. Hagen discovered the Higgs mechanism and that's not including the researchers involved with the Large Hadron Collider's confirmation of the Higgs boson. One expert believes the prize should be awarded to Higgs, Englert and CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the LHC, while another expert believes CERN and members involved in the ATLAS and CMS experiments should be recognized for discovering the Higgs boson.
2013 Nobel Prize Betting Odds: Higgs Boson Discovery Favored For Physics But Who Will Get The Award?
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