Pearl Buck
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Pearl Buck receiving her Nobel Prize from
His Majesty the King Gustav V of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall,
10 December, 1938.
Source: University of Pennsylvania
Photographer unknown
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At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall,
10 December 1938, only two Nobel Laureates were present: Pearl Buck, Literature Laureate, and Enrico Fermi, Physics Laureate.
Source: University of Pennsylvania
Photographer: Karl Sandels
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Portrait of Pearl Buck.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Photographer: Arnold Genthe
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