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Nobel prize cash raised to $1.1 million
The cash envelope that accompanies each Nobel prize will be increased this year from nine to 10 million kronor ($1.1 million), the Nobel Foundation said yesterday. This year's prizes in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be announced during the week of October 5. The prize sum was increased as the foundation's initiatives to improve its finances paid off.
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