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1 (of 5) Sir James W. Black receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 1988.

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2 (of 5) The Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 1988. From left: Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings.

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3 (of 5) Sir James W. Black at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 1988.

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4 (of 5) Medicine laureates Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in December 1988.

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5 (of 5) The 1988 laureates assembled at the Swedish Academy, 1988. Back row from left: medicine laureate George H. Hitchings, chemistry laureate Johann Deisenhofer, medicine laureate Sir James W. Black, physics laureate Jack Steinberger, chemistry laureate Robert Huber, physics laureate Melvin Schwartz, chemistry laureate Hartmut Michel and physics laureate Leon M. Lederman. Seated are from left: laureate in economic sciences Maurice Allais, medicine laureate Gertrude B. Elion and Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz, daughter of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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