Women absent from Nobel Prizes - why?
Now that all this year's Nobel Prize winners have been made known, we interview Swedish Radio's science commentator Ulrika Björksten to find out about what trends the choices indicate, what a "typical" Nobel Prize in the sciences means, and why no women won.
"When you ask the Nobel Committees that, they often say that their prizes actually reflect science as it was a decade or so ago, or two decades ago even," says Björksten.