STOCKHOLM (AP) The winners of the Nobel Prizes collect their awards on Tuesday. Here are some of the numbers that tell the story behind the honors and the ceremonies.
2: the number of ceremonies held one for the peace prize in Oslo and one for the five other prize categories in Stockholm. Prize founder Alfred Nobel wanted it that way, for reasons that he kept to himself.
12: the laureates who will personally collect their awards on Tuesday. The 13th, 82-year-old literature winner Alice Munro, declined the invitation to Stockholm for health reasons and is represented by her daughter.
84: the age of physics winner Peter Higgs. He is the oldest of this year's laureates. The youngest is 57-year-old medicine winner Thomas Sudhof. The oldest winner in Nobel history was Leonid Hurwicz who accepted the economics award at age 90. The youngest was Lawrence Bragg, who was just 25 when he collected the physics award in 1915.
15: the number of people who can accompany each laureate to the Nobel week in Stockholm. Higgs' entourage includes his son, daughter-in-law, two grandchildren and a number of scientific colleagues, according to the Nobel Foundation.