Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai To Receive The Nobel Peace Prize 'Today'

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TV9 News: Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai To Receive The Nobel Peace Prize 'Today'...,

Stockholm: Child rights activists India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, along with 11 others, will receive this year's Nobel Prizes on Wednesday.

In Norwegian Oslo, the laureates will receive the Nobel medals, Nobel diplomas and documents confirming the Nobel Prize amount.

Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai, 17, will share USD 1.1 million Peace Prize at Oslo while all the other awards will be presented in Stockholm.

Satyarthi, along with his wife Sumedha, son, daughter- in-law and daughter reached Oslo on Tuesday.

Frenchman Patrick Modiano will be presented the Literature Nobel, US-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife duo Edvard and May-Britt Moser Nobel in medicine and Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura the Nobel in Physics.

Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell will share the Nobel in Chemistry while Frenchman Jean Tirole will be presented Nobel for Economics.