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Eyewitness Reports

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm

Alfred Nobel

Celebrating Nobel

BY Stig Ramel
"During almost 100 years that the Nobel Foundation has been responsible for the festival, certain years have been especially glittering."
1901 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901

BY Folke Henschen
"In the days leading up to the awarding of prizes, there was tension in the air."
Philip Hench

Reminiscences of the Nobel Festival, 1950

BY Philip S. Hench
"Our train approached Stockholm through a countryside freshly covered by a heavy snowfall. Every scene looked like a Christmas card."

The Nobel Banquet in Stockholm

Stina Mörner-Paasche

Childhood Memories of Early Nobel Ceremonies and Laureates

BY Stina Mörner-Paasche
"It was almost with a little trembling that I went in and shook the hand of Pavlov - a warmly smiling little white-bearded man."
Danny Kaye

A Memorable Nobel Festival

BY Tore Browaldh
"The conductor was standing with his back to the end of our table, with the singers facing us."
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