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(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File) The 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Dr Brian P. Schmidt from Australia receives his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, during the Nobel Prize ...