Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The winners of the 2005 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics were officially handed their awards by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
The winner of the literature prize, Harold Pinter, did not attend the ceremony or the week-long festivities in the Swedish capital because of ill health.
The 75-year-old British playwright was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in December 2002. His publisher, Stephen Page, accepted the prize on his behalf.
The formal ceremony, traditionally held in Stockholm's Concert Hall on the anniversary of the death of Nobel prize founder Alfred Nobel in 1896, was to be followed by a gala banquet for 1,300 guests at City Hall attended by Sweden's royal family and members of the government.
Australian researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the medicine prize for pioneering research into stomach ulcers, proving they are caused by bacteria and therefore treatable with antibiotics.
Americans Roy Glauber and John Hall and German Theodor Haensch won the physics prize for groundbreaking work in optics and the nature of light.
Yves Chauvin of France and Americans Robert Grubbs and Richard Schrock won the chemistry prize for breakthroughs that open the way to smarter drugs and environmentally-friendlier plastics.
Finally, the economics prize went to Robert Aumann, an Israeli-US citizen, and Thomas Schelling of the US for using game theory to explain conflict resolution.
Each Nobel prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a check for 10 million Swedish kronor to be shared if there is more than one laureate.
The Stockholm ceremony followed the awarding of the most prestigious of all the prizes, the peace prize earlier on Saturday in the Norwegian capital Oslo to the UN nuclear watchdog agency IAEA and its Egyptian director general Mohamed El Baradei.
AFP
Comments
See Also
The winner of the literature prize, Harold Pinter, did not attend the ceremony or the week-long festivities in the Swedish capital because of ill health.
The 75-year-old British playwright was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in December 2002. His publisher, Stephen Page, accepted the prize on his behalf.
The formal ceremony, traditionally held in Stockholm's Concert Hall on the anniversary of the death of Nobel prize founder Alfred Nobel in 1896, was to be followed by a gala banquet for 1,300 guests at City Hall attended by Sweden's royal family and members of the government.
Australian researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the medicine prize for pioneering research into stomach ulcers, proving they are caused by bacteria and therefore treatable with antibiotics.
Americans Roy Glauber and John Hall and German Theodor Haensch won the physics prize for groundbreaking work in optics and the nature of light.
Yves Chauvin of France and Americans Robert Grubbs and Richard Schrock won the chemistry prize for breakthroughs that open the way to smarter drugs and environmentally-friendlier plastics.
Finally, the economics prize went to Robert Aumann, an Israeli-US citizen, and Thomas Schelling of the US for using game theory to explain conflict resolution.
Each Nobel prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a check for 10 million Swedish kronor to be shared if there is more than one laureate.
The Stockholm ceremony followed the awarding of the most prestigious of all the prizes, the peace prize earlier on Saturday in the Norwegian capital Oslo to the UN nuclear watchdog agency IAEA and its Egyptian director general Mohamed El Baradei.
AFP
Join the conversation in our comments section below. Share your own views and experience and if you have a question or suggestion for our journalists then email us at [email protected].
Please keep comments civil, constructive and on topic – and make sure to read our terms of use before getting involved.
Please log in here to leave a comment.