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STOCKHOLM — Guessing who will win a Nobel Prize is a bit like forecasting the stock market: Experts don’t seem to do it any better than laymen.

So if you hear professors and pundits predicting the “God particle” will be the theme of the physics prize next week, or that an American writer – finally – is due for the literature award, check their track record.

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In this undated portrait, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) is shown.

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