Japan author, ‘spooky’ science up for cut-price Nobels

STOCKHOLM, Oct 8: A Japanese author who writes of love and isolation, researchers into ‘spooky’ quantum physics and experts on economic inequality have all been tipped as possible Nobel Prize-winners ahead of the start to the annual awards on Monday. Medicine, physics and chemistry laureates will receive their Nobels first in Stockholm next week, followed later by economics. But for many outside the world of science, the literature and peace prizes are the most widely discussed at the dinner table. (agencies)