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Originally published: October 1, 2011 5:47 AM
Updated: October 1, 2011 6:03 AM
By The Associated Press  KARL RITTER (Associated Press)

Quick ReadAs Nobel Prize season starts, who will get those lucky, lucrative calls?

Photo credit: AP | FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2010 file photo, Peruvian Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, left, receives the Nobel Prize in Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week. Goran Hansson, secretary of the Nobel committee for medicine, will dial the first one. He will announce the first of the 2011 Nobel Prizes on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 after he calls the winners. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Henrik Montgomery) SWEDEN OUT

(AP) -- Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week.

Goran Hansson will dial the first one.

"Sometimes they think that I'm joking," said Hansson, secretary of the Nobel Prize committee for medicine. He will announce the first of the 2011 Nobels on Monday, after...

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