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After his father died, he inherited a half-share of local newspapers in the Australian city of Adelaide in the 1950s, before going on to own some of the most influential newspapers and TV stations in the world.

Last year, BP paid $1.1 billion for a half-share of the offshore business that Equinor, the Norwegian oil company, has established off the east coast of the United States.

When politics took over, he sold his half-share in the company when he was first elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament in 1969, believing a politician should not also be a businessman.

A draft deal had been finalized that included proposals that Abdullah lead a high council for peace talks and have a half-share in government appointments, Fraidoon Khwazoon, a spokesman for Abdullah, said.

In the words of the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, his half-share of this year’s physics prize “rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history.”