Lector Wolfgang Matz holds up "Atemschaukel" by Literature Nobel Prize winner German Herta Mueller in Munich's publishing company Hanser October 8, 2009. Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Lector Wolfgang Matz holds up "Atemschaukel" by Literature Nobel Prize winner German Herta Mueller in Munich's publishing company Hanser October 8, 2009. Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.

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  1. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - NOVEMBER 25: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, Rebekah Robertson looks at the photographs of four SA Nobel Prize winners and the apartheid era at the Iziko Art Gallery on November 25, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The photographic exhibition is to honour the South African Nobel prize winners. The photographs used in the exhibition were researched by George Hallett, whose work also features in the exhibition.
  2. FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2003 file photo, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in physics Vitaly Ginzburg is seen at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. Ginzburg died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at the age of 93, the Russian news television channel Vesti reported Monday.
  3. BERKELEY, CA - OCTOBER 12: University of California, Berkeley professor Oliver Williamson smiles during a news conference at UC Berkeley October 12, 2009 in Berkeley, California. American Oliver Williamson shared the Nobel Prize in economics with Elinor Ostrom for their analysis of economic governance.
  4. BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller smiles during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,' the Swedish Academy said.
  5. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - OCTOBER 7: Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Thomas A. Steitz speaks during a news conference in the President's Room of Woolsey Hall at Yale University October 7, 2009 in New Haven, Connecticut. Steitz, along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada E. Yonath won the prize for their work describing ribosomes and how they function to produce chemistry controlling proteins on an atomic level.
  6. RECHOVOT, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 7: Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, a leading researcher in the structural biology field, attends a press conference after she was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry by the Nobel committee in Stockholm, at the Weizmann Institute on October 07 2009 in Rechovot, Israel. Yonath shares the prize with Britain's Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, an American, for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.

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