STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Private documents about Nobel Prize in Medicine candidates were stolen from the committee chairman's car last year, Swedish police said Wednesday.
The documents, including five books and a computer were taken from Klas Karre's car when it was parked in central Stockholm, committee secretary Goran Hansson told the Dagens Medicin newspaper.
"It's not possible to protect oneself against crime in every situation. Our committee members must be able to take material home," Hansson said.
The identity of the 2010 medicine winner, British researcher Robert Edwards, was revealed by the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper the morning before announcement in an unprecedented breach. The Nobel Committee denied at the time that someone could have leaked the information. UPI
