Nobel Prizes Awarded in Sweden
Nobel prizes awarded in Sweden
OSLO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The award ceremony of this year’s Nobel Prizes was held in Stockholm on Monday, according to reportsreaching here.
Two laureates are absent from the ceremony for reasons of health. They are British writer Doris Lessing, the laureate of Nobel Literature Prize, and American professor Leonid Hurwicz, oneof winners of Nobel Economics Prize.
Marcus Storch, chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, sent the warmest regards to Doris Lessing and Hurwicz in his opening address.
Storch also expressed a very warm welcome in his address to thelaureates and their families to the ceremony in honor of the laureates and their contributions to science and literature.
All the other laureates attended the ceremony. They are two Nobel Physics winners Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg, Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Gerhard Ertl, three Nobel Medicine Prize winners Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Martin J. Evans andtwo Nobel Economics Prize winners Erik Maskin and Roger Myerson.
About 2,000 guests, including Sweden’s royal family, were invited to the award ceremony at Stockholm’s concert hall, followed by a lavish banquet a few blocks away at City Hall.
The U.N. climate panel (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President AlGore received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize earlier Monday at a ceremony in Norwegian capital Oslo for helping galvanize international action against global warming before it “moves beyond man’s control”.
The Nobel Prizes are usually announced in October and are handed out every year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor ofdynamite.
This year’s prize carries a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (about 1.54 million U.S. dollars), a gold medal and a diploma.
The Nobels, widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious accolades in science and literature, have been awarded since 1901.
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