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Austria's Anton Zeilinger, winner of the Nobel Physics Prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and John Clauser of the US, holds a press conference at the Univerity of Vienna. The trio were honoured for "groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated", said the Nobel Committee for Physics. IMAGES
Italian theorist Giorgio Parisi, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, receives his medal at a ceremony in Rome. He was awarded the prize for his work on the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems. IMAGES
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Pierre Agostini (France), Ferenc Kraus (Austria, Hungary) and Anne L'Huillier (France, Sweden) for their work on electron dynamics. IMAGES
The head of Norway's Nobel Committee, Breit Reiss-Andersen, announces that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Belarusian human rights activist, Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation, Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights organisation, The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL). SOUNDBITE
American chemist Carolyn R. Bertozzi reacts by phone to receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which she is sharing with Denmark's Morten Meldal and fellow American Barry Sharpless. The trio are being honoured "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.