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Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded it as UK citizens, according the the Nobel Committee.

Shared prizewinners are deemed full laureates by the committee.

EDIT AGAIN: G. B. Shaw held a dual citizenship (both Irish and British), and William C. Campbell figures both under the Irish list and the US list (at least, according to the always-correct Wikipedia).

You do have a point, there, Srameen.

Diamond

Personally, I'd prefer a pet to a piece of carbon or a strip of plastic, but whatever Marilyn said, each to their own.



For certain types of hospital scans people have to ingest or are injected with a medical contrast medium which increases the visibility of blood vessels and other parts of the body, like the gastrointestinal tract. These contrast agents are 1. very expensive and 2. can cause very serious side effects. Over the last few years, it's been discovered that ingesting other types of liquid altogether has the exact same effect in terms of making areas more visible in the gastrointestinal areas (they can't be used for, let's say, scans to the brain). These liquids are extremely inexpensive and extremely easy to procure.

What are they?

No.

No, but you're getting warmer.

No, sorry.

For anyone else who isn't busy patenting rhubarb juice (or cabbage juice!!), if you need more clues please shout.