{"id":991,"date":"2017-10-03T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-10-03T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T10:38:36","slug":"nobel-week-who-gets-the-prizes-and-who-picks-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Nobel week \u2013 who gets the prizes and who picks the winners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9685.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9685\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9685.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9685-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9685-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a>Nobel week has kicked off in Stockholm with the Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to a trio of American scientist who discovered what makes our biological body clock tick. The Nobel week ends on Friday with the announcement of this year\u2019s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. But who decides the winners, and why are some prizes awarded in Sweden and the Peace Prize in Norway? I try to lift the curtain on a nearly 120 years old tradition for the BBC World Service:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/6357692-nobel-week-who-gets-the-prizes-and-who-picks-the-winners\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAEZn01m8AmEA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel week has kicked off in Stockholm with the Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to a trio of American scientist who discovered what makes our biological body clock tick. The Nobel week ends on Friday with the announcement of this year\u2019s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. But who decides the winners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}