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Chemistry Laureate Aziz Sancar showing his Nobel Medal during his visit to the Nobel Foundation on 12 December.
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Chemistry Laureate Paul Modrich excited to explore the Nobel Foundation's guest book, signed by the Laureates since 1952.
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Medicine Laureate Youyou Tu and her relatives admire the golden Nobel Medal showing Alfred Nobel.
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Nobel Laureate Arthur B. McDonald showing his Nobel Medal for Physics.
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Laureate in Economic Sciences Angus Deaton in front of a portrait of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prizes, at the Nobel Foundation.
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Nobel Laureate Youyou Tu with her Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine.
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Chemistry Laureate Aziz Sancar receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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Physics Laureate Takaaki Kajita with his Nobel Medal and Diploma.
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Flowers donated from Sanremo decorates the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Medicine Laureates Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu, Literature Laureate Svetlana Alexievich and Angus Deaton, Laureate in Economic Sciences on stage.
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Medicine Laureate Satoshi Omura proceeds into the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall for the Nobel Banquet.
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The Nobel Banquet: all guests assembled inside the glimmering Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall.
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Sweden's Princess Sofia and Physics Laureate Takaaki Kajita shares a light moment.
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Literature Laureate Svetlana Alexievich at the table of honour.
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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Physics Laureate Arthur B. McDonald.
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The Nobel Banquet starter: turbot and scallop with sea plants, brown butter and bleak roe, created by chef Sayan Isaksson.
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The menu highlights local ingredients from Scandinavia: here ember bed roasted veal wrapped in mushrooms with celeriac and apple, and potato pithiviers.
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A beautiful dessert: coffee and almond flavoured cherry blossom, designed by pastry chef Daniel Roos.
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The divertissement is an homage to Swedish music in modern times. Here, Seinabo Sey is performing.
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Chemistry Laureate Tomas Lindahl creidted his mentors in his Nobel Banquet speech.
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Physics Laureate Arthur B. McDonald takes to the dance floor in the Golden Hall after the Nobel Banquet dinner.
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The audience in the Oslo City Hall in Norway awaits the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
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Houcine Abassi, Secretary General of The Tunisian General Labour Union, UGTT, shows the Nobel Diploma, painted by Willibald Storn.
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Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, experts and thought leaders discussed "The Future of Intelligence" at the 2015 Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg.
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"The Future of Human-Computer Interaction" was the theme for one of the discussions, featuring Cynthia Breazeal, Sherry Turkle and Guru Banavar.
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Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2015 Nobel Prize Concert.
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Daniil Trifonov performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Nobel Prize Concert.
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In his Nobel Lecture, Aziz Sancar presented the mechanisms of DNA repair by photolyase and excision nuclease.
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The two Nobel Laureates in Physics together at the stage.
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"I do not stand alone at this podium ... There are voices around me, hundreds of voices." Svetlana Alexievich delivers her Nobel Lecture.
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In her Nobel Lecture, Medicine Laureate Youyou Tu shared her story about the discovery of Artemisin - "A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world".
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Angus Deaton, Laureate in Economic Sciences (middle), looks at how his Prize was interpreted by two fashion students as part of the exhibition 'Nobel Creations' at the Nobel Museum.
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Like many Nobel Laureates before her, Svetlana Alexievich autographed a chair at Bistro Nobel at the Nobel Museum.
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Outside the Nobel Museum journalists from around the world waited for the Nobel Laureates, here Medicine Laureate Satoshi Omura.
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10 persons were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2015, two women, eight men; and one organization. There are now two new Nobel Laureates in Physics, three in Chemistry, three in Physiology or Medicine, one in Literature, one in Peace and one Laureate in Economic Sciences. See a short presentation of them here.
List of the 2015 Nobel Laureates
Video clips from the Nobel Banquet
Banquet Menu
Banquet Program (pdf)
Nobel Laureates' Banquet Speeches
Arthur B. McDonald
Tomas Lindahl
William C. Campbell
Svetlana Alexievich
Angus Deaton
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The 2015 Nobel Prize Concert, featuring conductor Franz Welser-Möst, pianist Daniil Trifonov and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, took place on 8 December at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
More about the 2015 Nobel Prize Concert
On 9 December, Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, policy makers and the general public joined in an inspiring Nobel Week Dialogue, this year in Gothenberg.
More about 2015 Nobel Week Dialogue
Each Nobel Diploma is a unique work of art, created by foremost Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers.
More about the Nobel Diplomas
The Nobel medals show the image of Alfred Nobel on the face. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize.
More about the Nobel Medals
The Nobel Prize amount for 2015 was set at SEK 8.0 million per full Nobel Prize. Until 1968, in principle more than three persons could share a Nobel Prize, but this never happened in practice.
More about the Nobel Prize Amount
"A unique experience"
Kurt Wüthrich, Chemistry 2002
"I have many memories"
John Nash, Economic Sciences 1994
"I became increasingly nervous"
Robert Curl, Chemistry 1996
"It was wonderful"
John Fenn, Chemistry 2002
"I began to feel that this is real."
Reinhard Selten, Economic Sciences 1994
"We had an ice rink near the hotel"
Brian D. Josephson, Physics 1973
"It was truly magical"
William Sharpe, Economic Sciences 1990
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK to fund the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel's life and work
An entirely new industry grew up, based on Alfred Nobel's patents and with Alfred as the initiator.
Alfred Nobel's dynamite companies
In his will of 27 November 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
Excerpt of Alfred Nobel's will
See all the Nobel Laureates and why they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
See the list of all Nobel Prize awarded women.
The youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
List of all Nobel Laureates by age
Get to know the Nobel Laureates a bit better. Find your favourite among the episodes!
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Douglass C. North, awarded the 1993 Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away on 23 November. He shed new light on the economic development in Europe and the United States before and in connection with the industrial revolution, and emphasized the role of property rights and institutions.
Biography of Douglass C. North
Richard F. Heck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis", passed away on 9 October, 84 years old.
Biography of Richard F. Heck
Yoichiro Nambu, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, passed away on 5 July, 94 years old.
Biography
Irwin Rose, 2004 Chemistry Laureate, died on 2 June, 88 years old. His research made it possible to understand at molecular level how the cell controls a number of central processes by breaking down certain proteins and not others.
Biography
