Through Picture: Nobel laureates 2013

The festival day of the Nobel Foundation is on the 10th of December,
the anniversary of the death of the testator.
The Prize Award Ceremony for the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature as well as for The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
in Memory of Alfred Nobel - takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

At this event, His Majesty the King of Sweden,

hands each Laureate a diploma, a medal and a document

confirming the Nobel Prize amount.

The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the same day at the Oslo City Hall

by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

in the presence of the King of Norway.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/about/diplomas/

Nobel Diploma

Nobel Medal

Nobel medal for Physics and Chemistry

Nobel medal for Physiology or Medicine

Nobel medal for literature

Nobel medal for peace

Nobel medal for Economic Sciences

The Nobel prize amount

The Nobel Prize amount for 2013 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 8.0 million per full Nobel Prize.

On 27 November 1895, a year before his death,
Alfred Nobel signed the famous will which would
implement some of the goals to which he had
devoted so much of his life. Nobel stipulated
in his will that most of his estate, more than
SEK 31 million (today approximately SEK 1,702 million)
should be converted into a fund and invested in "safe securities."

Medicine or physiology

Physics

Chemistry

Nobel laureates facts

The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place in Stockholm Concert Hall on Tuesday 10 December.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuDuE-39afQ

Arieh Warshel receiving his Nobel Prize in Chemistry from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

Robert J. Shiller after receiving his Prize in Economic Sciences at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

François Englert delivering his Nobel Lecture in the Aula Magna at Stockholm University.

James Rothman (left) and Randy Schekman (right) in an animated discussion at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm..

Peter Higgs during the interview with Nobelprize.org.

The Banquet took place in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall on Tuesday 10 December.

http://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/archive/video/banquet/2013/index.html

The Nobel Banquet: almost 1,250 guests seated in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall.

The eye-catching dessert creation at the Nobel Banquet featuring Alfred Nobel's silhouette in chocolate.

Six Nobel Laureates in a panel discussion at the 2013 Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December 2013.

James E. Rothman delivering his Nobel Lecture The Principle of Membrane Fusion in the Cell in the Aula Medica at Karolinska Institutet.

Michael Levitt delivering his Nobel Lecture Birth & Future of Multi-Scale Modeling of Biological Macromolecules in the Aula Magna at Stockholm University.

2013 Nobel prize concert

Nobel Media, in association with the Stockholm Concert Hall, presented the 2013 Nobel Prize Concert –- an event of world class stature. The concert was held on 8 December as part of the official Nobel Week programme of activities.

Riccardo Muti conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme comprising Verdi’s “Le quattro stagioni” from Act III of I vespri siciliani (the Sicilian Vespers), Martucci’s Notturno Op. 70:1 and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.

Riccardo Muti conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2013

In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 together with Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. Nelson Mandela died on 5 December.

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1854

Nelson Mandela held his Acceptance and Nobel Lecture on 10 December 1993 in the Oslo City Hall in Norway.

"Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates."

#thankfully shared from:http://www.nobelprize.org/

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Nobel laureates 2013

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