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• Myanmar’s military assumed control of the country in a coup on Monday, ousting the democratically elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, and arresting the Nobel laureate and several leaders of her party in early-morning raids.

• When Janet Yellen became chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1997, her husband, economic Nobel laureate George Akerlof, took full leave from his tenured post in Berkeley University’s economics department to support her career.

• Everything about this inauguration seemed an effort to soothe a nation, from Garth Brooks’s simple rendition of “Amazing Grace,” to the young poet laureate Amanda Gorman who spoke of the need to step into our history before we can move beyond it.

• Anyone who meets the prize committee’s nomination criteria — heads of state, former laureates and selected academics, to name a few — can offer a nomination.

• The group in December named Rowling one of its Ripple of Hope laureates for her founding of Lumos, which works to get children worldwide out of orphanages and into families.

• At that first meeting, activists elected Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov to be the chair for their society.

• Elie Wiesel, who was involved with the Irgun Zionist underground, is a 1986 Peace Laureate.

• The West awarded him the Nobel prize for literature in 1987 and America made Brodsky its poet laureate in 1991.

• Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi supported the Iranian revolution only to have it end her career as a judge.

• It was Independent People, by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, that put modern Icelandic literature on the global map.