Halldór Laxness

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1955 laureates looking at their diplomas

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1 (of 1) From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.

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