STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week.

The awards are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace.

The winners will join the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa.

For the peace prize, U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated several times by people within the U.S. as well as politicians abroad since 2018. His name also was put forth in December by a Republican congresswoman for his brokering of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and some Arab states.

Here are some things to know about the Nobel Prizes:

The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman and chemist from Sweden. He

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