The Google Doodle for January 9, 2018 honors Har Gobind Khorana. Google hide caption
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The owner of a Jerusalem auction house holds up a note on happiness written by Albert Einstein in 1922. The note, which Einstein gave to a courier in lieu of a tip, sold for $1.56 million on Tuesday to an anonymous buyer. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In this photo provided by the University of Chicago, Richard Thaler poses for a photo with his books at his home in Chicago after winning the Nobel prize in economics, on Monday. Anne Ryan/AP hide caption
Einstein realized that if masses moved about, the deformations in space would also move about, propagating like waves, somewhat like what happens when you throw a rock on a pond. But, gravity being such a weak force, the effect is truly tiny and needs something very dramatic to create a signal we can detect here. This is exactly what was found by LIGO and the Nobel winners. traveler1116/Getty Images hide caption
Nobel Committee for Physics members announce the 2017 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The laureates are (from left) Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were shown on a screen at Monday's announcement. From left to right: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer give their acceptance speech after winning the Ig Nobel Economics Prize during ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday. The pair won for their experiments to see how contact with a live crocodile affects a person's willingness to gamble. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
The Nanocar Race, which happened over the weekend at Le centre national de la recherché scientific in Toulouse, France, was billed as the "first-ever race of molecule-cars." CNRS hide caption
Can Britney Spears still stop traffic? They seem to think so in Tel Aviv. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia hide caption
Bob Dylan, who announced he would accept in person the Nobel Prize for Literature, was silent after it was announced he would receive the prize. Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., on Monday. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
Star Wars has devoted fans who dress up like their favorite characters, but now Lucasfilm, the film's parent company, is saying the New York Jedi and Lightsaber Academy went too far. Lucasfilm filed a lawsuit in which it noted that the academy's logos were too similar to the logos used in the film. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
John Nash, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, giving a lecture in 2007. Rajanish Kakade/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption
Bob Dylan performed on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images hide caption